Candidate Joe Biden pledged to hold for-profit colleges accountable for ripping off taxpayers and ruining students’ lives, and Kamala Harris, in her Democratic convention speech, touted her work as California’s attorney general to fight for-profit college abuses. After four years of Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos protecting this bad-behaving industry, there’s much that the new
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Apparently, someone at the U.S. Department of Education, with access to sensitive information, is pleased to see Diane Auer Jones, the top higher education official at the department, leave as the Trump administration ends. Politico‘s Michael Stratford reports today on a preliminary finding of the department’s inspector general office that Jones exceeded her authority in
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Dear Friends, We made it. You did it. Four years ago, our country elected a racist con man, entirely unfit for office, to be president of the United States. And he stayed in the post a full four years, despite numerous crimes and abuses and an unprecedented two impeachments by the House of Representatives. As
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A Florida man was impeached this week — for the second time in 13 months. Donald J. Trump, 74, of Palm Beach, was once again charged in a complaint by a neighbor living near Trump’s second home in Washington, DC. The neighbor, Nancy Pelosi, reported that Trump, a federal government employee, incited insurrection by falsely
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On Wednesday, even though just a week remained in the presidential term, and even with prospects for conviction in the Senate highly uncertain, the House of Representatives was one hundred percent right to impeach Donald Trump for the second time.  The facts, our values, and the nation’s security demanded that the House act. Trump’s ugly
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Here’s an email I just sent to White House counsel Pat Cipollone: Pat Cipollone, Esq. Counsel to the President The White House Washington, DC 20500   Dear Mr. Cipollone,   I am writing to you as a concerned citizen. (I am a Washington, DC, attorney and former staff member of the National Security Council and
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has resigned today in the wake of the MAGA terror attack on the Capitol, writing in a letter to President Trump, “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.” I’m glad she broke with Trump on his
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President Trump’s most recent crimes — inciting a violent mob to maraud in the U.S. Capitol, leading to loss of life, and then praising the terrorists afterward — has led some of his most egregious enablers, including Bill Barr, Mick Mulvaney, Stephanie Grisham, and Lindsey Graham, to finally denounce him and / or resign from
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