Campus Pride Ranks Top 25 LGBT-Friendly Universities
Campus Pride has revealed this year’s list of the t op 25 LGBT-friendly universities based on its Campus Pride Index, which scores schools on their policies, programs, and practices. It’s the only...
View ArticleSolidarity Singers Defy Warning of Crackdown in Madison Capitol
By Rebecca Kemble, August 29, 2012 Tuesday’s Sing Along was attended by more than 200 people and kicked off with a recitation of the section in the Wisconsin State Constitution about “the right of the...
View ArticleRemington Shepard: Fox’s Ralph Peters Reads "Body Language" To Blast Obama As...
Fox's Ralph Peters disregarded actual evidence to continue to push the right-wing narrative that President Obama is anti-Israel, a narrative that has been pushed for the entirety of Obama's term....
View ArticleAmerica’s 1 Percent Have 288 Times As Much Wealth As The Median Household
According to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, the wealthiest 1 percent of American households had a net worth 288 times as large as the median household wealth of $57,000 in 2010.
View ArticleREPORT: America Is Failing To Send Students From Less Educated Households To...
The United States is falling behind other industrialized countries when it comes to making a college education attainable for all of its citizens, according to a report released today. The report,...
View ArticleOne Million Borrowers Have Been Bounced Out Of Obama Administration’s Main...
Over the summer, the one millionth borrower fell out of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), the Obama administration’s signature foreclosure prevention program, according to Treasury...
View ArticleDeMint Likens Teachers Striking In Chicago To ‘Thugs’ In The Middle East
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) jokingly compared the teachers strike in Chicago to the unrest in the Middle East during a speech at the Values Voters summit Friday morning. “You know, we had a lot of bad news...
View ArticleRomney Campaign Approvingly Cites Statement Saying That Its Tax Plan Doesn’t...
The Romney campaign has been pushing back against a recent report by Innovation Ohio and the Center for American Progress showing that “millionaires in [Ohio] would receive an additional $87,000 in...
View ArticleObama Administration Report: Sequester Would Be ‘Deeply Destructive…To Core...
The Obama administration’s Office of Management and Budget today released a report on the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts — the so-called sequester — that will occur if Congress does not...
View ArticleSimon Maloy: "47 Percent" Vs. "Bitter Clinger"
This afternoon, Mother Jones ' David Corn reported on a video of Mitt Romney taken surreptitiously at a campaign fundraiser in which the Republican presidential candidate tells donors that "there are...
View ArticleJoe Strupp: "Shame On Them": Obama Co-Panelists Fault Media Who Misreported...
Three panelists who appeared with President Barack Obama at the 1998 conference where he mentioned "redistribution" agree that his comments were wrongly taken out of context by the conservative press...
View ArticleShauna Theel: Reuters Misrepresents Study On Coal Plant Closures
Reuters is running the headline: "More US coal plants to retire due to green rules-study." But the group that authored the study says the additional expected retirements are "Due To Low Natural Gas...
View ArticleFox Favorite Jason Chaffetz And The Right-Wing Media’s Libya Hearings
Frequent Fox News guest Rep. Jason Chaffetz is pursuing investigations into the September attacks on a U.S. consulate in Libya, capping a month-long campaign in the right-wing media.
View ArticleTimothy Johnson: Townhall’s Katie Pavlich Falsely Paints Gun Violence As Only...
Townhall news editor Katie Pavlich makes a facile comparison between "two gun cultures" in America and claims that gun violence is largely limited to urban areas. However, high levels of gun death...
View ArticleThe Most Memorable Tweets Of 2012
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) hit a deer, then tweeted this: Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville.
View ArticleHospital Chain Flouts NLRB Order After Court Ruling On Recess Appointments
Last week’s radical federal appeals court ruling that called into question hundreds of presidential recess appointments made over the last 150 years is already taking a toll. While the decision...
View ArticleThe Morning Pride: April 10, 2013
Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what...
View ArticleNRA Features Conservative Media Figures Known For Violent Rhetoric, Baseless...
The National Rifle Association's annual meeting on May 3-5 will feature a number of conservative media figures -- including Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Ted Nugent -- who often use violent rhetoric...
View ArticleJill Fitzsimmons: VIDEO: What The Press Is Missing About Midwest Floods
As Midwestern states assess the damage wrought by record flooding in recent weeks, scientists tell Media Matters that the media has missed an important part of the story: the impact of climate change....
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