A Red Caesar: How the GOP’s new political order could end the American experiment in 2024
“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker said, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane.” Now, however, the senior lecturer at Penn...
Access to ballots: Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether Trump is eligible to be president again
The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again and can be kept off the ballot. The case, to be argued on February 8, stems from a section of the 14th amendment...
Trump Not King: How a Federal Court defined limits on immunity for crimes committed while president
By Claire Wofford, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston In a 57-page opinion issued on February 6, 2024, a federal appeals court ruled against former President Donald Trump, deciding that presidents are not immune from criminal prosecution...
Reggie Jackson: The little-known history of Black History Month
“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” – Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Founder of Black History Month “The foremost purpose of Black History Month is to...
When the priority of who is saved shifts from “women and children first” to “everyone for themselves”
The phrase and its grave implications about who to save first in a catastrophe are rooted in the shipwrecks of centuries past and popularized by Hollywood’s treatment of the Titanic disaster. It is getting another airing at a time when, in many societies, women...
Giving birth for hire: The ethical and religious challenges of becoming a parent through surrogacy
By Danielle Tumminio Hansen, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology & Spiritual Care, Emory University Pope Francis made headlines on January 8, 2024, when he called for a global surrogacy ban, stating, “I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate...
Why schools turn to telehealth therapy options to meet soaring mental health needs of students
rouble with playground bullies started for Maria Ishoo’s daughter in elementary school. Girls ganged up, calling her “fat” and “ugly.” Boys tripped and pushed her. The California mother watched her typically bubbly second-grader retreat...
Advanced Wireless begins shipping hundreds of access points it donated to rebuild Irpin’s Wi-Fi network
Darryl Morin, President and CEO of Advanced Wireless, Inc. (AWI), formally announced on February 1 the donation and pending shipment of more than 800 site-survivable Wi-Fi access points to Milwaukee’s Sister City of Irpin, Ukraine. The donation, consisting of...
ADHD treatments face continued drug shortages after a pandemic-triggered surge of adults sought help
Prescriptions for ADHD treatments surged among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to fuel lingering shortages that frustrate parents and doctors. New prescriptions for stimulants used to treat the condition jumped for young adults and women during a two-year...
End of pandemic aid and soaring rent prices drive homelessness up to a record 12% nationwide
The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, according to federal officials. About 653,000...
A state of deprivation: To be homeless in America means to be without freedom
By Paul Schofield, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bates College Homelessness is a state of deprivation. Those who are homeless need shelter to be safe; they do not have it. They need a toilet for basic bodily functions; they do not have one. They need a shower to...
John Birch Society: The roots of America’s modern conspiracy theory run deep in small-town Wisconsin
The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It was the late 1950s in the cramped little offices. At the John Birch Society, they have been waging war for more than 60 years against what they are sure is a vast and diabolical conspiracy. It was a place where...
