The debate over transgender identity and ideology would make a great lesson in covering controversial social issues, an important part of the job of journalism instructors. Such teaching wouldn’t be advocacy, except perhaps advocacy for the clear thinking necessary...
This dead-end has to be located in a historical context.
Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative AI systems, are pushing hard to get them into U.S. public schools as well as colleges and universities. Their interest goes beyond short term profits—it is also about “grooming” a new generation to...
MAGA Republicans have shut down the government once again after lawmakers failed to strike a deal to keep the lights on, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay and millions of Americans facing the possibility of losing affordable health care.
7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. At least 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during this time–30 out of every 1,000 people.
UNRWA and the ICRC warn of catastrophic conditions in Gaza, where over 100 Palestinians are killed daily alongside famine deaths, as Israel’s assault pushes the death toll past 66,000.
Administration hardliners Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio are said to be pressing for military actions inside Venezuela, citing unproven counternarcotics claims.
Response to ‘Red Flag: No, East Germany wasn’t socialist—and neither is “democratic socialism”’
A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie observes: “Trump’s numbers are tanking and there...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) 2025 summit in Tianjin produced a series of outcomes that, although modest in appearance, are strategically significant. The most prominent developments were the agreement in principle to establish an SCO Development Bank,...
Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.
The adjustment in the Goods and Services Tax rates that has just been announced to take effect from September 22, does not as such inject any purchasing power into the economy.