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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Agree or Disagree?
When Josh Marshall first heard that Donald Trump was threatening to boycott the next Republican debate unless CNBC changed the format, he “thought it was another example of Trump’s signature tendency: he cannot thrive without drama and enemies.” But when he heard the demands, he “thought they had merit.“
Say What?!
“Fuck you Jeb Bush for telling poor people they need stronger families to not be poor. Poverty weakens families.”
– A New York Times staffer tweeted this and then quickly deleted it.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “While free tuition sounds great, for years, I’ve watched the rate of tuition go up several times faster than the rate of inflation. I could be looking at this wrong, but it seemed to me like the colleges were raising the tuition rates just because they could, and that was mainly due to the availability of student loans. So, will free tuition work? Will free tuition lead to a deterioration in the quality education as colleges compete for student numbers? What will states’ role be? What if the quality of a particular public university education isn’t up to standards? Will there be standards even, and who decides what they are.? And finally, is there another way around the problem of outrageous student loan debt other than through free tuition? Is there a way the government can take the middlemen (banks) out of the equation by making the loans direct, at a substantially reduced interest rate? And would the same questions as above apply?”
Related: The key point missing from the college cost debate.
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What We’re Reading
The Reagan White House thought AIDS was pretty hilarious. (Mother Jones)
What we know (and don’t know) about Sacajawea. (Buzzfeed)
The voluntary system by which law enforcement agencies report police killings to the FBI is fundamentally flawed. (The Guardian)
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