Articles by Glen Luke Flanagan

“Too much of a good thing” isn’t usually an argument applied to education. But a recent Gallup survey found a sharp partisan divide in how Americans view higher ed, with just a third of Republicans confidant in U.S. colleges. The reason why? Politics. Those Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who make up the other two-thirds “are most likely to cite their belief that colleges and universities are too liberal and political." The survey also found that these respondents believe coll...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFCYdgtzUU As of Monday evening, Hurricane Harvey had killed at least 10 people, according to the New York Times. The economic toll is impossible to calculate as of yet, but the Wall Street Journal puts it in the “tens of billions of dollars.” We watch the latest news coverage of neighbors and rescuers who are risking their own safety to help the people stranded in Houston, to provide them what they need in a difficult time. What you see are not Republicans an...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie turned his focus to poverty earlier this month after a GOP summit on the matter, telling CBS the issue "can be a difficult thing to talk about." He also criticized federal efforts to combat poverty as ineffective -- a move experts say fits with his efforts to appeal to more conservative voters as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. "Christie is trying to appeal first to conservative GOP primary voters," said Daniel Bowen, associate professor of p...

The governor of Arkansas aims to end the state's decade-long hiatus on executions in October. Gov. Asa Hutchinson has set dates for the executions of eight convicted murderers, according to Reuters. The first two men are sentenced two die in October. But this decision is already being challenged, according to Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. "The lawyers for the prisoners who are facing death warrants will be filing motions for an injunction to bar all...

The political world has been abuzz with rumors that Vice President Joe Biden is eyeing the White House for 2016. Democrats are split almost down the middle as to whether or not they would welcome such a run, according to Gallup data. An August poll shows that 45 percent of Democrats -- including independents who lean that way -- are in favor of such a campaign, but 47 percent are not. Biden would have to face off against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, both of whom have already been on the...

As GOP candidates struggle to stand out from one another in an ever-more-crowded field of presidential hopefuls, one has opted to bet her fortune on voters' antipathy for political shenanigans. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has launched her campaign as a scrappy underdog, criticizing the behavior of what she terms the "political class." That willingness to take on the establishment has earned her positive media attention following her performance in the August 6 GOP pre-debate. "One...

As a boatload of candidates eye the White House for 2016, one issue the hopefuls won't be able to escape is immigration policy. The issue will be one of the key talking points on the campaign trail, and provides a clear demarcation between the two established parties, said Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the U.S. immigration policy program at the Migration Policy Institute. "Democrats are eager to pay attention to the issue because they think it helps them with Hispanic and Asian voters," R...

As Republican candidates continue to try to stand out from the pack and win the party's nomination for president, experts say a young senator from Florida could be the party's best hope at winning over independent voters. That senator is Marco Rubio, and his youth and charisma could make him an appealing candidate for younger voters who are tired of partisan politics, said Susan MacManus, political science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. "They don't want politics as usua...

A recently released EPA study shows that climate change threatens American lives and the U.S. economy. Global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could prevent annually 13,000 deaths from bad air quality, 1,700 deaths from extreme heat and cold in 49 major U.S. cities, a loss of 360 million labor hours and between $507-$700 million from poor water quality, according to the study. This is not shocking information, according to Dr. Robert Lawrence, director at the John Hopkins Center for a ...