Vivek Viswanathan, a policy advisor at Hillary for America who focuses on college affordability and student debt, will be hosting a live Q & A here on Daily Kos at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET on Monday, October 3. He graduated with a B.A. in history from Harvard, an M.Phil. in historical studies from the University of Cambridge, and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford. In addition to all those degrees, he's had the opportunity to team up with Michelle Kwan to make a video explaining Hillary's college affordability plan. Please bring your questions Monday and join us!
- What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- A reflection on evangelical Christians who suddenly feel they have nowhere to turn in this election, by Kerry Eleveld
- Obama told the story of America in dedicating the new Museum of African American History and Culture, by Ian Reifowitz
- Evangelical contortions to support Donald Trump a travesty to Christianity, by Egberto Willies
- Horse race illusions and the angst-ridden ‘sport’ of politics, by Propane Jane
- Lessons from Hillary Clinton’s debate win: Winning people, not arguments, by David Akadjian
- Don’t talk to me about justice, unless you are voting to secure SCOTUS, by Denise Oliver Velez
- SpaceX is set to take on the wild, wild waste, by DarkSyde
- I am voting for Hillary, by Mark E Andersen
- The number of Clinton newspaper endorsements is YUUUGE, Sher Watts Spooner
President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday that he would like to kill millions of drug addicts in the Philippines, defying international criticism of his country’s bloody war on narcotics and escalating his brutal rhetoric with a reference to the Holocaust.
“Hitler massacred three million Jews,” Mr. Duterte said after returning to the Philippines from a trip to Vietnam, understating the toll cited by historians, which is six million. “Now there is three million, there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”
- Michelle Obama is a fantastic surrogate:
Houston residents looking to register to vote need look no farther than the corner taco truck.
Half a dozen local taco trucks supported by design firm Rigsby Hull andMi Familia Vota, a Latino activist organization, are holding voter registration drives.
Wonder Woman is queer, her writer has confirmed: “I don’t know how much clearer I can make it”. [...]
He told the comic news site Comicosity the character had “obviously” been in love and relationships with other women, as has long been speculated by fans.