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Cartoon by Jen Sorensen. Donors sympathetic to reactionary-right ideology and their pet pundits have created a cottage industry of bashing college students with negative stereotypes. Receive my weekly newsletter by joining the Sorensen Subscription...
by Jen Sorensen
 35 comments
on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 04:50 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden will announce his latest effort to broaden student loan relief next week for new categories of borrowers, according to three people familiar with the plans, nearly a year after ...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 01:55 PM PDT
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More than 7.5 million student loan borrowers have enrolled in the U.S. government's newest repayment plan since it launched in August.
President Joe Biden recently announced � that he was canceling ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 11:55 AM PDT
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Few issues have vexed the Biden administration like student loan forgiveness. Given that more than 40 million Americans owe money on their student loans, for a total of $1.6 trillion, few issues ...
by Ian Reifowitz
82 comments
on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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This is frickin’ scary!! And you can’t change the movie, so we’re all stuck with facing this! A long-time friend/colleague of mine said if our democracy falls, she’s leaving the country. I pointed out that the other so-called safe countries, like...
by WatchfulEye
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 05:09 PM PST
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Dartmouth College will reinstate the requirement for prospective students to submit standardized test scores (SAT/ACT etc.) for the class of 2029 (Fall 2025 admission) onward. www.nytimes.com/... Dartmouth College announced this morning that it would...
by fewsorange
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 07:53 AM PST
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by angryea
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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by Jen Sorensen
113 comments
on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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American college campuses , as well as our society more broadly, continue to be roiled by incidents of hate targeting ...
by Ian Reifowitz
110 comments
on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
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The battle over the future of higher education has taken a dark and cynical turn. Last week, near the end of a contentious Congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses, the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT all fell into a trap set by...
by Blue Tuesday
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 01:03 PM PST
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Antisemitic hate crimes on American college campuses are nothing new. But things have gotten much worse since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in which Hamas raped, murdered, and kidnapped civilians in Israel—overwhelmingly Jews, but those of other...
by Ian Reifowitz
451 comments
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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For far too many years, Americans have made the mistake of assuming that our republican democracy will be safe as long as we elect competent and well-intentioned politicians as leaders. Sadly, that’s like thinking your surgeon, who is very good at what...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 08:12 AM PDT
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Why Student Loan “Forgiveness” is misleading, and not progressive. (Specifically about Biden’s Student debt relief plan) The federal government has student loan programs, many of which pass no interest to the borrower. They’ve made arrangements with...
by Rachel Brown
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 02:58 PM PDT
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Family needs and the lack of a safety net add to a college graduate’s struggle to rise from California’s low-wage economy.
By � Jessica Goodheart �for Capital & Main
Sandro Flores, 26, has a ...
by Capital and Main
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on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
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The presidents of a wide-ranging group of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new nonprofit initiative announced Tuesday to combat what ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Aug 15, 2023 at 03:55 PM PDT
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 04:50 AM PDT
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If you haven't watched Katie Phang's television show on MSNBC, I highly recommend it. She is an extremely intelligent attorney and does a great job of getting to the heart of issues. Her guest was Dr. Wayne A I Frederick who is the president of Howard...
by Dem
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on Sat Jul 01, 2023 at 12:45 PM PDT
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I was writing a nice diary on the Environomics of electric vehicles when the news came out. I’ll save that for another day. I was shocked but relieved by the Supreme Court’s decision in the “independent state legislature” case, and disgusted but not...
by Bob Waterstripe
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on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 11:59 AM PDT
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Learning is ...
by strawbale
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on Tue Jun 06, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Once upon a time I was a republican. It was thanks to a handful of friends in my life that I realized I’m not a republican. If I believe that basic necessities like healthcare and housing should be something we all pool our resources together for then...
by Rachel Brown
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on Thu May 11, 2023 at 02:44 PM PDT
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