Bernie Sanders on that bizarre line of questioning from Diane Rehm: “I suspect what happens is her staff gives her a list of questions and someone screwed up pretty bad.”
As he readies to run for president and grabs whatever low hanging fruit on the conservative agenda tree he can find, Scott Walker is now planning to strip tenure from professors in the University of Wisconsin higher education system.
This will undoubtedly be portrayed and fought over as a matter of academic freedom. Tenure is among other things in place to protect scholars from the patronage and political demands of the moment and incentivize independent scholarship free of ideological, market or political pressures. That is 100% true. And by and large it is a good system – especially when understood in the larger context of academic life.
But let’s be honest: there’s basically zero way you win a fight in the political realm to defend lifetime job security for relatively high paid professors who do zero manual labor.
Turns out the white woman whose alleged racial slurs touched off the disturbance at the McKinney, Texas pool works for a publicly traded corporation. Or did. The company has placed her on administrative leave pending further investigation.
What’s really behind the onslaught of 20-week abortion bans? Abortion foes are very candid about it with TPM’s Tierney Sneed.
Diane Rehm explains where she found out the (false) information that Sen. Bernie Sanders is a citizen of Israel. “As I Had Read In A Comment On Facebook …”
In today’s edition of ‘My Conservative Inbox’, find out how you can get your own home storage gold IRA.
Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Art Garfunkel in Jerusalem.
Where did this come from? Today on the Diane Rehm Show, Rehm pressed Sen. Bernie Sanders on whether or not he is a US-Israeli dual citizen. He’s not. After pressing the point and having him deny it, she shifted gears to “Are there members of Congress who do have dual citizenship or is that part of the fable?”
Duggar family refused to cooperate with a child protective services visit late last month.
Longtime TPMers will remember that going on a decade ago we did a lot of reporting on this totally crazy story: a few Florida stoner bros who got into the business of arms dealing, servicing the Bush administration’s goal of standing up an Afghan security force (fast, really fast)which needed tons of Soviet era munitions. The big cheese was 21 year old high school dropout Efraim Diveroli; the second cheese was 25 year old David Packouz, a part-time masseuse. Makes perfect sense right? It was all going great until they got greedy and stupid and the feds got involved. Not the ones who needed millions of Russian bullets but the ones who indict you. Now, we’ve got a much deeper dive, with years of history and fall out and reporting to give us a fuller picture of just what on earth was going on with these jokers. Check it out.