Supreme Court Student Debt Cancellation Decision Sparks Dueling Proposals
By Nick Mordowanec Republican and Democratic senators on Wednesday issued dueling proposals aimed to deal with the inordinate costs and processes associated with higher education, though both plans are vastly different in their approaches. The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision this week on whether the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, which would erase federal student loan debt for approximately 20 million and lower balances for another 20 million, is constitutional. The court will look at two challenges: one involving six Republican-led states, and a lawsuit filed by two students. President Joe Biden recently vetoed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution following debates about the
Harris gets her cavalry: Top group plans to spend $10 million-plus to boost her
By Eugene Daniels One of the nationâs most powerful political groups tasked with helping female candidates is readying a massive investment to improve Kamala Harrisâ public standing. EMILYâs List, the political action committee whose aim is to elect female candidates supportive of abortion rights, says it will be spending âtens of millions of dollarsâ to defend and prop up the vice president during the 2024 election. Such an investment in support of a sitting vice president is politically unprecedented. And it reflects the lack of broader efforts that have been made to date to help bolster the vice president amid
Talk of Racism Proves Thorny for G.O.P. Candidates of Color
By Jonathan Weisman Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina opened his presidential candidacy with a story of the nationâs bitter, racist past. It is one that he tells often, of a grandfather forced from school in the third grade to pick cotton in the Jim Crow South. A rival for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley, speaks of the loneliness and isolation of growing up in small-town South Carolina as the child of immigrants and part of the only Indian family around. Larry Elder, a conservative commentator and long-shot presidential candidate, talks to all-white audiences about his father, a Pullman porter
VP Harris becomes the first woman to give a West Point commencement speech
By Emma Bowman and Juliana Kim Vice President Harris delivered the keynote speech at West Point’s graduation ceremony on Saturday, making her the first woman to give a commencement address in the military academy’s 221-year history. The watershed moment comes amid the 75th anniversary of two major turning points in the U.S. military â the beginning of women having a permanent place in the armed forces and the end of racial segregation in the military. “These milestones are a reminder of a fundamental truth,” Harris told graduates on Saturday morning. “Our military is strongest when it reflects people of America.”
What the Memorial Day weekend debt ceiling deal teaches us about politics
By E.J. Dionne Jr. This Memorial Day weekend, there is a strange disconnect in our countryâs public life. In Washington, negotiators scrambling to avoid a market calamity reached a debt ceiling deal that was more narrow than Republicans hoped and Democrats feared it would be. You might expect from this that our politics is primarily about taxes, spending and economics. But on the 2024 Republican campaign trail, former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are skirmishing over who will be the dominant voice in opposition to âwokenessâ and trans rights and who can keep the most books out of schools
ASU Biomedical Professor Elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
By Hazel Scott Dr. Derrick Dean, director of the Biomedical Engineering program in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Alabama State University, has been inducted into the class of 2023 of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dean was inducted alongside 142 colleagues who make up the 2023 College of Fellows. âI am humbled by this recognition by my peers. I would like to give a special thanks to my mentors, students and collaborators who helped make this possible,â Dean said. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to
Why Republicans Want Voters to Fear Kamala Harris As President
By Jessica Washington Republicans taking jabs at President Joe Bidenâs age isnât a new phenomenon. But, GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley took things way further when she predicted Biden would likely die within the next five years. Her poorly executed Miss Cleo impersonation aside, what Haleyâs trying to do here seems pretty straightforward. Just read what she said on Fox News last week; âHe announced that heâs running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden, you really are counting on a President Harris because the idea that he
Harris starts her 2024 race with a fired-up speech on the fight for abortion rights
By Deepa Shivaram Vice President Harris made it clear in her first speech of the 2o24 campaign that the fight for reproductive rights will be a key part of her message on the trail, casting it as one of several freedoms under attack by Republicans. In fiery remarks at Howard University â the historically Black college in Washington which is her alma mater â Harris echoed the reason that President Biden gave for running for a second term in office, a race where she will again be his running mate. “We are living, I do believe, in a moment in time where
Morgan State University Tears Down Long Symbol Of Racism
By Ariel B. After more than 80 years since its construction, the symbol of the racial division known as the âspite wallâ in Northeast Baltimore has been torn down. The wall, which has long been a symbol of racism, was built in the 1930s to separate the predominantly white neighborhood from the historically Black college. âThis wall occupies a central part of the history of Morgan State University in Morgan, moved to this site in 1917 and this whole community was all white,â said David Wilson, President of Morgan State University. âIt became known as the hate wall, the spite