Joe Biden’s Role in Creating the Student Debt Crisis Stretches Back to the 1970s
As a senator, Joe Biden supported several bills that contributed to the rise in borrowing from $1.8 billion in 1977 to $12 billion in 1989.
Politics
Targeting Iran
VOA Persian Awarded Journalism Contract to Controversial Former Trump Campaign Operative
Since 2016, the U.S. government-funded news outlet has turned to “blatant propaganda” designed to promote regime change in Iran.
Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is "Taking Saddam Down"
At a 1998 Senate hearing, Biden argued that “taking this son of a — taking Saddam down" was the only way to guarantee Iraq’s disarmament.
Targeting Iran
TV Pundits Praising Suleimani Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry
David Petraeus, Jack Keane, Van Hipp, John Negroponte, and Jeh Johnson all celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassim Suleimani.
The War on Immigrants
At Boston Immigration Court, ICE Must Now Justify Detaining Noncitizens — Reversing Decades of Precedent
ICE attorneys are now required to prove that a noncitizen poses a danger or flight risk in order for the court to deny bond.
Targeting Iran
As Sanders and Warren Vow to Block War With Iran, Biden and Buttigieg Offer Better-Run Wars
The legacy of the Iraq war, and Donald Trump’s assassination of an Iranian official in Baghdad, has the potential to transform the Democratic primary.
Can the Bernie Sanders Campaign Alter the Course of the Democratic Party?
The Bernie Sanders campaign is trying something new: trusting people.
Goodbye to William Greider, a Great American Democrat
Thomas Jefferson said all people were divided into two parties: aristocrats, who want to hold all power themselves, and democrats, who believe in regular human beings.
Joe Biden Wants to End Prison Profiteering. One of His Top Fundraisers Is a Major Player in Prison Health Care.
Michael Neidorff is CEO of Centene: a $60 billion health insurance company whose subsidiary Centurion provides services to prison facilities in 16 states.
Voices
Ivanka Trump Is a Senior Adviser to the President. She Should Be Asked Tough Questions.
Instead, CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Ivanka, “How’s your father’s mood?”