by Jeff Bryant | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog
News about wealthy folks giving millions to education draw both praise and criticism. But two new reports by public education advocacy groups reveal the real impact rich people have on schools and how they've chosen to leverage their money to influence the system....
by Amy Halsted | Oct 10, 2018 | Blog
Many Mainers, especially women newly engaged around the recent Supreme Court fight, are asking me what’s next, now that Brett Kavanaugh has been seated on the Supreme Court. My answer? Building power at the state level matters now more than ever. We’re four weeks away...
by Daniel Karon | Oct 9, 2018 | Blog
Is there anything left in GOP politics that doesn’t involve sex? If you ask Lindsey Graham, the “single, white male from South Carolina [who] will not shut up,” or Orrin Hatch, the tone-deaf octogenarian who knows an “attractive” and “pleasing” victim of sex abuse...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 9, 2018 | Blog
What if some communities no longer have public schools? That question, once unthinkable in America, may now be something policy leaders and lawmakers in at least one state may want to consider. In Michigan – home state to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos whose...
by Josie Mooney | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog
The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court revealed truths that often stay unspoken in American life. The first is how many of us are touched by sexual violence. A second is the deep fear that a loss of privilege strikes in the hearts of some....
by Miles Mogulescu | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog
RED ALERT! Georgia has purged nearly ten percent of its registered voters – nearly 750,000 people -from the voting rolls without their ever knowing. Now these voters have just one more day to reregister. IF YOU VOTE IN GEORGIA, OR KNOW ANYONE WHO DOES, BE SURE TO...
