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Jun 28 2022
News
U.S. Supreme Court takes aim at separation of church and state
The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court has chipped away at the wall separating church and state in a series of new rulings, eroding American legal traditions intended to prevent government officials from promoting any particular faith.
In three decisions in the past eight weeks, the court has ruled against government officials whose policies and actions were taken to avoid
ReutersFeb 03 2023
Perspectives Blog
Should Critical Race Theory Be Taught in Schools?
This piece was originally published on Divided We Fall, which AllSides rates as mixed. It was written by Johnatan Feingold, Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law, and Erec Smith, Associate Professor of Retoric at York College of Pennsylvania and Co-founder of Free Black Thought.
Is Opposition to CRT Legitimate Criticism or an Assault on Social Progress?It’s Divided We Fall (author)
Mar 22 2022
Analysis
Read the Letter Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Wrote Calling a Journalist ‘Irredeemably Evil’
While clerking for a federal judge, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denounced a Boston Herald columnist as "irredeemably evil" for criticizing unrestricted immigration.
Jackson wrote a letter to the editor of the Herald in response to a piece from columnist Don Feder that noted that the population of white people in America could decrease steeply as a result of open
Washington Free BeaconApr 17 2022
News
For many, Easter Sunday marks a return to in-person worship
For many U.S. Christians, this weekend marks the first time since 2019 that they will gather in person on Easter Sunday, a welcome chance to celebrate one of the year’s holiest days side by side with fellow congregants.
The pandemic erupted in the country in March 2020, just ahead of Easter, forcing many churches to resort to online or televised worship. Many continued to hold virtual
Associated PressOct 13 2021
News
Curious how systemic racism works? Check out your neighborhood.
Like most self-perpetuating systems, systemic racism masquerades as the norm. But as the history of housing discrimination illustrates, it’s a human-made system, not a natural one.
Becoming a first-generation homebuyer was a meaningful step for Erin. Her parents came to the United States from Cape Verde and had never been able to purchase a house. She was excited for the stability it
Christian Science MonitorJun 04 2021
News
A couch is not a home: Where the hidden homeless get housing vouchers
Being housed can be far from being at home. In Boston, a new aid effort recognizes the vulnerability of “doubled-up” parents and children – a couch-surfing homeless population traditionally overlooked by subsidized housing programs.
Seven-year-old Cristynn was scared to be left in her bedroom alone. She followed her mother, Taylor López, everywhere in their new apartment. Ms. López had
Christian Science MonitorMay 12 2022
Fact Check
Yes, Safe Smoking Kits Include Free Crack Pipes. We Know Because We Got Them.
Crack pipes are distributed in safe-smoking kits up and down the East Coast, raising questions about the Biden administration's assertion that its multimillion-dollar harm reduction grant program wouldn't funnel taxpayer dollars to drug paraphernalia.
The findings are the result of Washington Free Beacon visits to five harm-reduction organizations and calls to over two dozen more. In
Washington Free BeaconOct 26 2021
News
Nor'easter spurs rescues in New Jersey as areas brace for hurricane-force wind gusts
On Tuesday morning, 39 million people across the Northeast and New England were under flood alerts, while 9 million people remained under wind alerts.
Torrential rain, falling at 1 to 2 inches per hour at times, was drenching the tri-state area and southern New England causing dangerous commuting conditions for those on the roads and prompting water rescues from flash flooding in parts
NBC News (Online)Apr 22 2022
Opinion
There’s No Such Thing as a Value-Neutral Education
The public schools are meant to serve — whom?
Writing in the New York Times, Frank Bruni thinks he has an answer: “all of us.”
“The schools . . . exist for all of us,” Bruni writes, “to reflect and inculcate democratic values and ecumenical virtues that have nothing to do with any one parent’s ideology, religion or lack thereof.”
This is naïve and ahistorical.
The
Kevin D. WilliamsonJan 12 2022
News
Is murder upswing starting to abate? Some US cities see declines.
Despite a second straight year of rising homicides in 2021, last year’s violent crime data show some reasons for hope.
First, even though the homicide rate rose again, it slowed down. During the first three quarters of 2020, there was a 30% year-on increase in the homicide rate, according to research from the Council on Criminal Justice. In the same period last year, it rose only 4%.
Christian Science Monitor