by Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
As President Trump’s impeachment unspools, news coverage is buzzing about conspiracy theories and geopolitical rivalries. But at the root of Trump’s effort to extort Ukraine was a simple motive: Trump hoped to influence our elections to preserve his power and that of...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 13, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Earlier this year, when members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos about a study finding the federal government’s charter school grant program had wasted an estimated $1 billion on...
by Greg Chung | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured
What will it take to get big money out of politics? As a voter and a student, that’s what I want to know from any candidate who wants my vote, so I asked Mayor Pete Buttigieg this when he visited our campus – Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa – this weekend....
by Paige Marta Skiba, Caroline Malone | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler version of their “predatory” cousin, the payday loan. But for consumers, they may be even more harmful. Use of the installment loan, in which a consumer borrows a lump sum and pays back the principal and interest in a...
by Tim Wilkins | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Thom Hartmann Is It Time To Regulate Or Nationalize Facebook? Has Facebook gone from merely being a destination on the internet to something so interwoven in our lives that it should now be considered part of the commons and regulated as such? Is it...
by Thom Hartmann | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured
I was oblivious to the real significance of Facebook in everyday life until the company disabled my personal, private thomhartmann account. The list of “possible” reasons they posted for doing this included “impersonating a celebrity,” so maybe they shut me down...
