Admissions scandal reveals why America’s elite colleges are under fire

March 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment

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By By BENJAMIN WERMUND 03/12/2019 07:30 PM EDT (Politico)

Elite colleges already serve as some of President Donald Trump’s favorite targets. Their fat endowments took a hit in the 2017 GOP tax law. A sweeping admissions cheating and bribery scandal the FBI uncovered Tuesday is the latest blow to the nation’s most expensive and selective American universities, which are also battling allegations of misusing race in deciding who will be invited to enroll.

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Democrats dilute the power of superdelegates in historic party vote

August 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment

(August 25, 2015 13:25) — In a move aimed at getting past the acrimony from the 2016 presidential primary and unifying the party, the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to dramatically reduce the role of superdelegates in choosing its presidential nominee.

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Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard

August 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders: Big Pharma a health hazard
By Bay Area News Corp

(Aug. 15, 2016 1:38 p.m.) — The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people.

Our nation pays — by far — the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. As a result, nearly one in five Americans cannot afford to fill their prescriptions. That is unacceptable. A lifesaving product does no good if patients cannot afford it.

A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness explains how a pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences, games the system to charge high prices and then shifts the profits offshore to avoid billions in U.S. taxes.

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Bernie Sanders buys a lake home, igniting Twitter snark

August 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders buys a lake home, igniting Twitter snark
By Dan D’Ambrosio, Free Press

(August 14, 2016 23:00 p.m. ) — BURLINGTON, Vt. — Earlier this month, real estate agent Franz Rosenberger closed a deal with Bernie and Jane Sanders for a $575,000 lakeside home in North Hero — a second home where the Sanders family could gather with children and grandchildren for weekends on the water, the Realtor said.

“It has a nice gradual pebble beach that’s protected, which was important for them, for their grandkids,” he said. “It has big views of the lake and the Green Mountains. They really wanted to be looking at Vermont.”

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Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana

August 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Daniel Marans, HuffingtonPost.com

(August 11, 2016 12:16 p.m.) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threw some shade at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday.

The DEA announced it would end the federal government’s monopoly on marijuana cultivation, but to the disappointment of many drug reform proponents, the agency declined to reclassify pot from its list of “most dangerous” narcotics.

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Bernie bucks keep pouring in for Wasserman Schultz rival Canova

August 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Patricia Mazzei, MiamiHerald.com

(August 10, 2016 4:10 p.m.) — What is Bernie Sanders’ endorsement worth?

For Florida congressional candidate Tim Canova, the answer so far is more than half-a-million bucks.

Sanders’ campaign told the Miami Herald on Wednesday that it has helped raise more than $637,000 since May 22, when the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate began asking supporters to chip in for Canova.

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Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Is Sounding a Lot Like Bernie Sanders

August 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Michal Addady, Fortune.com

(August 10, 2016 11:39 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign may have ended, but his platform seems to live on in Jill Stein.

The Green Party candidate outlined what she would want to accomplish as president in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box saying, “As the only candidate that is not poisoned by corporate money, lobbyists, or Super PACs, I can actually stand up for what it is that we need.”

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Say Anything: Sanders and the Lesser Evil Mantra

August 9, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Stan Malinowitz, CounterPunch.org

(August 9, 2016 1:41 p.m.) — I don’t really feel betrayed by Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton. He said he would support the Democratic nominee, whoever it turned out to be, at the start of his campaign. That opened the doors to the Democratic debates and to the amount of media coverage he got.

Even if the media clearly under-covered his campaign and over-covered Clinton`s, he got more visibility and his campaign came farther than if he had run as an independent or if he had not made the pact with the party.

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Robert Reich – Foreign Cash Is Hijacking American Democracy

August 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Robert Reich, Alternet.org

(August 8, 2016 4:00 p.m.) — The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad.

“Without a border, we just don’t have a country,” Donald Trump says repeatedly. For him, the biggest threats to American sovereignty are three-dimensional items that cross our borders, such as unwanted imports and undocumented immigrants.

He’s wrong. The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad.

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Counting the votes – How electors pick the president

August 7, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Meg Kinnard

(August 7, 2016 05:00 p.m. ) — COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s an institution as old as the nation itself, but the Electoral College remains an enigma to many Americans. The Founding Fathers, apprehensive about the unchecked power of the popular vote, added the extra step to the process of choosing a president.

A look at the ins and outs of the Electoral College and how its role could be even more scrutinized this year.

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