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Only a small fraction of the many children who need help with school actually get tutoring

David Daniel knows his son needs help. The 8-year-old spent first grade in remote learning and several weeks of second grade in quarantine. The best way to catch him up, research suggests, is to tutor him several times a week during school. But his Indianapolis school offers Saturday or after-school tutoring — programs that do not work for Daniel, a single father. The upshot is his son, now in third grade, isn’t getting the tutoring he needs. “I want him to have the help,” Daniel said. Without it, “next year is going to be really hard on him.” As...

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How Jane Rosenberg’s courtroom sketch of Donald Trump created a viral sensation from a dying art

By Anita Lam, Associate Professor, York University, Canada For the first time in its history, “The New Yorker” featured a courtroom sketch on its cover. The image, which appears on its April 17, 2023, issue, gives viewers a glimpse of a historic court proceeding that could not be captured by cameras: the arraignment hearing of Donald Trump two weeks earlier. Because Trump is the first former U.S. president to be criminally indicted, there is immense public interest in this case. However, when Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, his reactions and expressions could...

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Ron DeSantis faces revelations about his military assignment in Guantanamo’s “Torture Machine”

Recently, there have been troubling revelations about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a leading 2024 GOP presidential aspirant, concerning his conduct as a Navy JAG officer at Guantanamo Bay. His responsibilities at the detention facility apparently included responding to claims of mistreatment from the war-on-terror prisoners there. Relatively few of these detainees had any connection with al Qaeda, and many had simply been handed over to US forces in exchange for bounty payments. But DeSantis seemingly viewed them all as wily and unrepentant terrorists. Of particular note, DeSantis was at Guantanamo in 2006 during the brutal forced-feeding of prisoners engaged...

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Identity Politics: When patriots cheer a legally defined sexual predator and twice impeached insurrectionist

“Is @CNN still going to do a town hall with the sexual predator twice impeached insurrectionist?” – Lt. Colonel Alexander S. Vindman, retired On CNN’s May 10 broadcast Donald Trump doubled down on his lies in support of the White Supremacist haters convicted of violently killing one police officer and sending 140 others to the hospital on January 6. This should not surprise us. He is getting ready to repeat January 6th after the 2024 election, and in the meantime is encouraging more hate crimes and violence against Americans whose skin is not White, are queer, or simply support...

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Primetime Mess: Trump’s return to CNN shows that corporate media has learned little since 2016

Donald Trump’s primetime return to CNN on May 10 for the first time since 2016 felt like a throwback: Trump with the long, twisting answers; the interviewer at times struggling to fact-check him or return his focus to the question at hand; and then, eventually, both talking over each other as Trump flings insults her way. The town hall in New Hampshire was the first time in years that Trump faced prolonged questioning from an outlet outside the friendly confines of conservative media outlets of his choosing. He had branded CNN “fake news” and never granted any of its...

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Trump digs deep with election lies and insults American democracy during CNN’s town hall event

During a contentious CNN town hall on May 10, former President Donald Trump dug in on his lies about the 2020 election, downplayed the violence on January 6, 2021, and repeatedly insulted the woman whom a civil jury this week found him liable of sexually abusing and defaming. Trump, returning to the network after years of acrimony, also refused to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war against Russian aggression and said the U.S. “might as well” default on its debt obligation, despite the potentially devastating economic consequences. The live, televised event — held in early-voting New...

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