Several states are banning books and criminalizing the teaching of controversial topics. What’s become verboten? Here’s everything you need to know: Is censorship growing? Yes. Recently passed state and local legislation is dictating what schools may or may not teach and what students may or may not read. A record 2,571 different titles were banned…
The Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied migrant children to live with nonfamily sponsors who are already hosting at least two other children, says a new Health and Human Services Department audit, raising questions among advocates who worry that some minors are being sponsored by strangers who could exploit them for child labor. The audit, conducted by…
Several states are banning books and criminalizing the teaching of controversial topics. What’s become verboten? Here’s everything you need to know: Is censorship growing? Yes. Recently passed state and local legislation is dictating what schools may or may not teach and what students may or may not read. A record 2,571 different titles were banned…
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: You can now put a price tag on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) feud with Disney, said Nicole Narea in Vox. Already embroiled in a lawsuit over DeSantis’ efforts to end its special self-operating status, Disney said last week it is…
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: You can now put a price tag on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) feud with Disney, said Nicole Narea in Vox. Already embroiled in a lawsuit over DeSantis’ efforts to end its special self-operating status, Disney said last week it is…
WASHINGTON — For months, the Biden administration’s ambitious plan to discharge billions of dollars of student loan debt has been on ice, blocked by lower courts, its fate left in the hands of skeptical conservative justices on the Supreme Court. Decision day is fast approaching. The stakes are high, with 43 million people eligible for…
Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes inside Kosovo between police and ethnic Serbs that injured more than a dozen people. Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, who are a majority in that part of the country, had tried to block recently-elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal…
In shadow of Ukraine war, Latvia turns wary eye on local Russians | View caption Hide caption Trust Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sown mistrust in another former Soviet republic, Latvia, where Russian speakers are struggling against being stigmatized as pro-Moscow. “There are definitely more tensions between the two populations than there have been for…
Several states are banning books and criminalizing the teaching of controversial topics. What’s become verboten? Here’s everything you need to know: Is censorship growing? Yes. Recently passed state and local legislation is dictating what schools may or may not teach and what students may or may not read. A record 2,571 different titles were banned…
