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The right sort of nostalgia makes democracy work better

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania — For a brief moment, it was as if stepping back in time when a series of 1920s Bentley Roadsters chugged up along the ridge of the winding Lincoln Highway in the mountains of Somerset County. Both the drivers and passengers were wearing goggles, their scarves billowing in the wind. The smiles on […]

Justice for the Pepper-Jackson Five

The five students who protested a boy competing in girls’ sports at a recent track and field competition should receive justice and be allowed to compete. Five students at Lincoln Middle School in Harrison County, West Virginia, refused to throw the shot put against a male student named “Becky” Pepper-Jackson during an April competition. Pepper-Jackson […]

Mark Hamill calls Biden ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ in White House press room appearance

Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a "Star Wars"-inspired nickname for the commander in chief.  "How many of you had Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing on your bingo cards?" Hamill, sporting a pair of...

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pelosi, Gore, 17 others: Watch live

President Biden on Friday afternoon will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people of diverse backgrounds, with actions and achievements spanning the better part of a century. Among those receiving this highest of civilian honors are two prominent figures from the Civil Rights movement: Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer and activist who co-wrote...

How a single rogue elector could flip the presidential election

The Electoral College is not the faceless “race to 270” that cable news portrays it to be.

Sunny Hostin: Tim Scott wouldn’t help Trump with Black viewers if picked as VP

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wouldn’t help former President Trump with gaining Black voters in the 2024 election if he ends up being picked as the vice presidential candidate. Scott, who endorsed Trump early this year, is one of the candidates the former president is considering to pick as his...

Inaccuracies found in Noem’s new memoir ahead of release

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s memoir has not been released, but inaccuracies in the text are already emerging. Noem’s spokesperson said “two small errors” have been brought to the Republican governor's attention. The book is titled “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward." The Dakota Scout...

Gas stove emissions increasing childhood asthma rates, adult deaths: Stanford study

Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing early death, a coast-to-coast study of U.S. homes found. A mix of pollutants, with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) chief among them, may be responsible for as many as 200,000 current such asthma cases, according to...

Our revised race standards still fall short for Indigenous Americans

We need to decouple Indigenous identity from race in federal data for two reasons. 

Republicans seek to revive Trump policy of branding foreign aid with US flag

A group of House Republicans is introducing an amendment to require U.S. foreign assistance to display the American flag, which would revive a Trump-era policy that was revoked by President Biden. The amendment is being led by GOP members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Reps. Brian Mast (Fla.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Mike Lawler...

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