Consider this a plea for forbearance toward your fellow voters. All over the internet, one sees people not just touting the cause of his or her own presidential candidates, or criticizing the other candidates, but also besmirching all those, both public figures and private, who dare to reach different voting conclusions. And tales are legion […]
College enrollment rates tell us a lot about what concerns today’s young adults. But while geographic and other trends shift, children are still compelled by the same status, meaning, or freedom that motivated previous generations. Ivy League schools, stalwarts of academic draw, have always performed well during college application season. Tens of thousands of high-school […]
If former President Donald Trump is wrong about the ethical content of in vitro fertilization, at least he is consistent about what he aims to accomplish with the procedure. The same does not follow for Vice President Kamala Harris. Since late August, Trump has openly supported IVF as a means of enhancing the Republican Party’s […]
Vice President Kamala Harris is running a lazy campaign. It should be no surprise that, with election season speeding up as the race comes down the stretch, she is finishing up her worst week of the campaign. Harris’s campaign has been lazy since it launched, not bothering to put her in front of the media […]
A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled Meta must face a state lawsuit, alleging the company knowingly designed and deployed features harmful to young online users. Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Peter Krupp issued the ruling Thursday in response to Meta's request to have the case tossed. The social media giant argued the suit created...
The Biden administration proposed this week to speed up the process of approving geothermal energy projects by exempting them from early-stage environmental reviews. If the Bureau of Land Management finalizes its proposal, geothermal energy projects on public lands will no longer have to undergo environmental impact analysis for early stage confirmation that an area is...
A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the murder of a Black transgender woman. In February, a jury convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter for the 2019 killing of Dime Doe on all charges, including one hate crime count, one federal firearms count and one obstruction count. Ritter is the first...
Vice President Harris on Friday defended her reluctance to break publicly with President Biden, calling it a “tradition” among vice presidents not to criticize their bosses. “I mean to be very candid with you; including Mike Pence, vice presidents are not critical of their presidents. I think that really, actually, in terms of the tradition...