From April 11-14, the American Educational Research Association will be gathering in Philadelphia for their annual meeting. Given massive learning loss and plunging faith in higher education, the challenges confronting the “world’s largest education research organization” are real. The list of topics calling for rigorous inquiry is staggering: exploding absenteeism, artificial intelligence, the effects of […]
It was a bittersweet moment on HBO last Sunday when, after 24 years and 12 seasons, the curtain was finally drawn on Larry David’s sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. Initially envisioned as a one-time project in 1999, the series started as an HBO mockumentary, documenting David’s return to stand-up following the end of Seinfeld. What ensued was among […]
The State Department has issued updated security warnings for U.S. government employees in Israel, amid warnings that Iran is expected to launch a retaliatory attack on the country. The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Thursday issued a security alert restricting American employees and their family members from personal travel outside of the greater Tel Aviv...
As long as Congress remains impudent in standing up to them and as long as social media companies fight tooth and nail to evade responsibility, victims should drown them in litigation.
A Colorado reproductive rights campaign announced Friday it has surpassed the necessary number of signatures to have a measure added to the November ballot enshrining the right to an abortion into the state's constitution. The Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom coalition announced it had exceeded its goal of collecting 185,000 signatures, securing more than 225,000....
The White House stressed Friday that the bill to reauthorize the United States’s warrantless surveillance authority is critical to U.S. national security, just after the House advanced it and ahead of an expected final vote later in the day. “Obviously we strongly support the bipartisan effort to get 702 reauthorized,” national security communications adviser John...
Americans believe both President Biden and former President Trump’s times in office did more harm than good, but they say so for different reasons, a new survey found. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that people think Biden’s presidency hurt the country due to cost of living, immigration and international relations. Those surveyed...
Years of underspending on defense generally and on naval forces in particular have left many NATO navies short of both personnel and funding for operations and maintenance.
The former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis S. Collins, revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis and detailed his decision to go public with it in an essay published by The Washington Post on Friday. Collins said he knew his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels were going up, and an increase in those can...