It’s disheartening to many of us that our local politics have become so mean-spirited and even downright nasty.
Republican candidates for the school board, including two with ties to Moms for Liberty, used the public comment portion of last week’s meeting to give campaign speeches filled with distortions and highly offensive personal attacks.
This past – complete with settlers’ brutal violence that often targeted Native American women and children and was often encouraged through scalp bounties – is often ignored in the U.S.
History can teach us lessons to better understand today’s rising antisemitism and white supremacist ideology in the United States.
Shell’s plant is spewing air pollution and blowing past permit limits in Western Pennsylvania, so we’re pushing to hold it accountable, write Food & Water Watch’s Mia DiFelice and Robin Lesko.
Despite Republican lawmakers’ attacks that DEI is part of some liberal “woke agenda,” these programs have been time-tested as changing campuses for the better and attracting more diverse student and faculty bodies.
Over the next decade, about 40 percent of middle-class older workers will be pushed into or near poverty when they reach retirement age.
Initiatives like Gender-Inclusive Biology, Project Biodiversity, and Welcoming Schools offer resources to help adapt curriculum to acknowledge and celebrate variation in the living world.
The policies in question require administrators to notify parents about students who change their sexuality or gender expression by requesting a name or pronoun change, or by asking for bathroom, locker room, or sports accommodations.
Advocates for the unhoused in Bucks County weigh in on what this decision could mean for our most vulnerable community members.
The new federal standards demonstrate that the Biden administration takes clean water seriously and will continue to take necessary action to stop chemical manufacturers from endangering our most vulnerable residents.
“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are fear-mongering over noncitizen voting, which is among the oldest tactics in American electoral politics.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
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