New Orleans Doing a little research and realizing that Betsy DeVos, the Michigan-based Republican fundraiser, who is now in line to head the Department of Education, had never attended a public school but only religiously oriented institutions straight through college, made me raise my eyebrows a bit. Reading that in her push towards the disastrous …
Is Trump’s Cabinet Part of the Educated Elite?
New Orleans President-elect Trump claimed he was going to “drain the swamp” in Washington and was going to overturn the control of government by the professional elite and its domination from Boston to DC. One part of his attack was the domination of the Ivy League educated class-based control of government. Let’s look at …
Fighting Fake News, One Source at a Time
New Orleans On a soul-killing wait at an airport recently, I found myself mindlessly scrolling Facebook, and I happened to notice that one of my real friends, Christine Allemano, who is also a Facebook friend, had posted an interesting query on her update. She wanted to combat “fake news,” and wondered what her friends read …