Last school year, Massachusetts teacher Andrew Swan started to feel like the assignments he had long relied on to illustrate how government works for his students were falling short. In one, his 8th ...

The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's workforce, more than ...

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(ThyBlackMan.com) For years I have been among a large segment of Americans who criticize people who “vote against their own interests.” The people to whom we refer exist at or near the bottom of the ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

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Jimmy Kimmel delivers the opening monologue during the 96th Oscars in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024. On Wednesday, Kimmel was yanked off the air by ABC and his show was suspended “indefinitely.” Jack ...

The EU's new political advertising regulations, which come into force in October 2025, resulted in Meta and Google platforms choosing to discontinue political and social advertising throughout Europe.

The partisan fight to draw maps that determine how Americans are represented has entered a dangerous spiral. Texas is racing ahead with a mid-decade congressional redraw designed to lock in additional ...

On Oct. 25, 2023, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, stood before his colleagues and the world in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was his first speech since his unlikely rise from ...

The Trump administration is considering military strikes on Venezuela if President Nicolás Maduro doesn’t step up pressure on drug cartels. That’s according to independent investigative reporter Ken ...

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...