Americans have a choice this fall between giving President Biden and Democrats in Washington two more years to accomplish their agenda or handing control of Congress over to Republicans. With skyrocketing inflation, healthcare costs and prescription drug prices, most experts expect voters to ...
On August 25, California announced that it had accomplished what many thought might be impossible: finding another way to make life difficult for its citizens — this time by banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles. California already has an affordable housing crisis, the worst roads ...
While walking out of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin was asked by a woman, “Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” And Franklin responded with the mythical line, “A republic, if you can keep it.” And so, the obvious question throughout ...
For teachers and librarians, returning to school means getting students back to stories. Stories matter, and they make a difference in our lives. Often, the jarring stories are most magnetic and make lifelong readers. An angry little boy sent to his room for punishment finds it transformed ...
The recent insider trading charges brought against former Rep. Stephen Buyer, R-Ind., are just the latest criminal ethics violations to be brought against a bipartisan line of members of Congress. It seems bad habits are hard to break: despite repeated attempts at reform, Congress has proven ...
We repeatedly have seen Black people gathered for teary hugs in specific neighborhoods. Why? Another Black child has been killed, not by police, but apparently following an intra-racial street crime incident. Such as 5-year-old Devin McGregor, who died Sept. 2 — five days after he was shot ...
