Daily Archive: February 4, 2016
What Is the Purpose of Higher Education? | The Glittering Eye
IMO our present system of higher education is targeted with unerring precision at the economic conditions of the 1950s. Then the purposes of higher education were clear. They were A) To prepare professionals for...
Study Finds Republican Voter Suppression Is Even More Effective Than You Think | ThinkProgress
In a new paper entitled “Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes”, researchers at the University of California, San Diego — Zoltan Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi — and Bucknell University — Lindsay Nielson — used data from the annual Cooperative Congressional Election Study to compare states with strict voter ID laws to those that allow voters without photo ID to cast a ballot. They found a clear and significant dampening effect on minority turnout in strict voter ID states.
Clinton Emails Held No Direct References to Undercover CIA Officers – NBC News
A handful of emails forwarded to Hillary Clinton’s personal server while she was secretary of state contained references to undercover CIA officers — including one who was killed by a suicide attack in Afghanistan,...
