The Biden campaign said Monday it will focus heavily on Pride Month events across the country to lock down support from the LGBT community, especially young people.

The U.S. was in full-on reassurance mode over the weekend with Indo-Pacific allies and partners, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin worked to shore up relationships at Singapore's Shangri-La Forum, the region's leading annual defense symposium.

“The world must be made safe for democracy,” President Woodrow Wilson declared in his 1917 war message to Congress. To engineer support for the cause, he proceeded to shut down civil liberties, create a national propaganda machine, and set the modern administrative state in motion. In the name of democracy, he instituted compulsory conscription and […]

Chicago Public Schools may soon remove police officers and implement “restorative justice” and “social-emotional learning” instead. It is part of the “Whole School Safety” plan, now available for public comment. The plan would include banning school resource officers at the 39 remaining schools that still employ them. Chicago Public Schools has tried to get schools to drop […]

In June 1918, near the end of World War I, the Socialist Party of America’s presidential candidate, Eugene Debs, delivered a scathing antiwar speech to a crowd in Canton, Ohio. Debs knew that he had to be careful in how he phrased his remarks, noting ironically that “it is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional […]

MEASURING THE TRUMP CONVICTION FACTOR IN THE 2024 RACE. If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ve probably heard a lot of speculation about the effect former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction will have on the 2024 presidential race. Here’s the real answer, so far: We don’t know. The first thing to remember about momentous events […]

Only 4 percent of young Americans say they use generative artificial intelligence (AI) almost daily or every day, according to a new report on those aged 14-22 released Monday. The report includes the results of a NORC survey, conducted for Hopelab and Common Sense Media on Oct. 4-Nov. 14, 2023, that shows 51 percent of...