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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos might have assigned the foxes to guard the henhouse when she hired multiple former employees of for-profit colleges to the Department of Education. During her time in office, probes into for-profit colleges have been derailed…
The Urban Institute, a major left-of-center policymaking outfit, has released an expansive and ambitious new plan to expand health insurance coverage: the Healthy America program. This isn’t quite Medicare-for-all, but that’s part of the selling point. The idea is to…
Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration rolled back yet another LGBTQ-friendly policy — this time, rescinding some protections for transgender people in prison. The new guidelines in the Transgender Offender Manual, as reported by Dominic Holden at BuzzFeed, likely make…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that 2.5 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) would be put into the construction of new submarines for the Royal Navy, the UK government said in a statement. “Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson today…
JERUSALEM (Sputnik) – The absence of Russia’s intention to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, just like the United States did, is “strange,” as Russia was one of the first countries to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital…
LONDON (Sputnik) – The celebration of the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem in “defiance of international law” marks a “dark day for peace,” Palestinian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Dr. Manuel Hassassian told Sputnik on Monday. “Today is…
