Written by Janine Ingram for the Huffington Post, January 30, 2015. Excerpts taken from Huffington Post Impact X. Read the full article on Huffington Post Impact X. Four beloved fictional characters were recently recast to runaround fake New York in fake jobs chasing really cool, CGI-created fake ghosts — and…
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Boehner Says Obama’s Immigration Action Damages Presidency Article written by Ashley Parker for the NY Times, Nov. 21, 2014 Excerpts from article taken from NYTIMES.com. Read the full article on the NYTimes website. Speaker John A. Boehner said Friday that President Obama was “damaging the presidency itself” by using his executive authority…
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by Eliza Schultz ’15, JHU Politik, March 9, 2014 Twelve years ago, in 2002, University President William Brody decided to take action against patent gender disparities at Johns Hopkins, mostly unabated since they were thoroughly documented in 1985. He and then-Provost Steven Knapp established a Committee on the Status of…
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By Theodore Johnson, Huffington Post, January 30, 2014 Black History Month is upon us once again, and with it comes a parade of facts to enlighten the nation on the contributions blacks have made to America. There will be children reciting famous lines from “I Have A Dream,” high school…
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Written by Maya L. Harris for CNN, January 21, 2015. Excerpts of article are below. Read the full article here. “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Martin Luther King Jr. asked almost 50 years ago. As…
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By Ezra Klein, Wonkblog “In his column Tuesday, Richard Cohen explores the more reactionary edge of Iowa’s Republican blogosphere. ‘Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled,’ he writes, ‘about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the…
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By Bob Burns, Indian Country Today Media Network “So you can imagine my dismay when I saw my name and words used to defend the racist Washington Redskins name. My son-in-law, ESPN’s Rick Reilly, completely misunderstood the conversation we had, quoting me as saying ‘the whole issue is so…
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By Charlie Savage, New York Times “Election law specialists expressed caution. Richard H. Pildes, a New York University law professor, said the Justice Department faced a complex legal challenge, ‘particularly when some of these changes, such as reducing early voting, involve measures that make voting more convenient but don’t restrict direct…
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By Laurel G. Morales, NPR Code Switch “Native American tribes gave up millions of acres to the federal government in the 19th century in exchange for promises of funded health care, education and housing. But time and again, those funds have been cut. The recent across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as…
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By Jamaal Abdul-alim “But UWM’s graduation rates are not only low in absolute terms, they’re low even compared to other nonselective, access institutions. Bowling Green State University in Ohio, for instance, is almost as open access as UWM (admissions rate: 80.1 percent). But it has a six-year graduation rate of…
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