More than ever, we need to protect our schools, libraries, and kids from censors and book banners. Our country will be better for it.
Students who are taught a subpar, silly, and inaccurate curriculum are at a serious disadvantage in life. Their futures are being compromised.
Extreme, pro-censorship authoritarians like Moms for Liberty are ringing in July 4 by calling for book bans. That’s un-American and wrong.
As more senseless shootings claim lives, it’s time to turn away from apocalyptic rhetoric and focus on what actually makes us safer.
As far-right violence against Jewish people rises, the Jewish idea of an “eruv” can teach us all to enlarge our humanity.
Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s right. That takes all of us.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
