Incisive take on the ethics of the #DebtCeiling rodeo from #EJDionne , a leading exponent of the best in #CatholicSocialThought : “The fact that Americans with the lowest incomes are political pawns in this exercise is a moral stain on our country.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/21/debt-ceiling-negotiations-biden-mccarthy-poor
Referenced link: https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/01/oxford-universitys-other-diversity-crisis
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/01/oxford-universitys-other-diversity-crisis
Originally posted by The Economist / @TheEconomist: http://nitter.platypush.tech/TheEconomist/status/1648571277647462400#m
Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/01/oxford-universitys-other-diversity-crisis
For the wealthy and influential, political authority offers anything—but for everybody else, the full force of the law: #NYTBouie pulls the banana-republic alarm on #JusticeThomas :
Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. Daly was also part of the team that established the primary nucleic acid bases.
She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the US.
Image: National Institutes of Health
Yes—good on #StanfordLaw and #Cornell : But I wish that Dean #Martinez and President #Pollack had made clear that each acceptance of an offer of admission or a teaching contract entails / implies a commitment to #Civility : Faculty and students could co-facilitate events after controversial appearances like #JudgeDuncan ‘s, or discussion sections following incidents of #Triggering in their courses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/opinion/free-speech-campus-universities-promising-news.html
Via Michael Beschloss:
Justice Abe Fortas forced to quit #SupremeCourt, 1969, over his secret financial relationship with rich friend
RT @eisingerj
“Clarence Thomas broke the law and it isn’t even close.”
Excellent piece by @Dahlialithwick & @mjs_DC, which actually gets the current & former state of the law exactly correct.
Other reporting on this hasn’t. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-broke-the-law-harlan-crow.html
#TenaKoutou to a role model for nerdy, anxious, and sensitive #Politicos :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/05/jacinda-ardern-final-speech-prince-william-earthshot
The Economist
Matt Navarra
Robert McNees
Laffy
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org
