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Student Press Law Center
Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center is the nation's only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment, and supporting the student news media to cover important issues free from censorship.
Sep 29 2015
News
Study links U.S. polarization to television news deregulation
Increasing American political polarization is linked to television news deregulation following the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, according to a Washington State University study. “After 1996, we see changes in polarization based on how much television people are using,” said researcher Jay Hmielowski, assistant professor in WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. He
Science BlogDec 05 2013
News
Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela: Inspiration from afar
They met just once. But Barack Obama looked to Nelson Mandela for inspiration for more than three decades, from a California campus to inner-city Chicago to the White House. Mandela’s influence stirred Obama to get involved in the fight against apartheid at Occidental College and guided the future president from community organizing to politics, as he sought to affect tangible, lasting change
PoliticoJun 07 2012
News
In Black And Youth Turnout, A Silver Lining For The Left In Wisconsin Recall Battle
It may not feel like there's anything positive to make out of the unsuccessful bid to recall Gov. Scott Walker in yesterday's Wisconsin elections, but there were hints of optimism. Young voters and African-American voters did more than their part to show up, according to exit polls and early reports, despite significant efforts to confuse and challenge them from groups that profess to be
HuffPostJun 29 2020
Opinion
America’s Problem Is Systemic Liberalism
Forget the bizarre and evil concept of national original sin that is the malignant idea that America is built upon “systemic racism." America’s true systemic flaw, arising at the time of those miserable progressives of yesteryear and continuing up through the miserable progressives of this rotten year, is what we now call “liberalism.”
Oh, it’s not classical liberalism, with its concern
TownhallOct 16 2014
News
Florida Out With A Bang As Early Voting Begins
Midterm elections are less than three weeks away, yet more than 904,000 Americans already have cast their ballots, with almost 60 percent of those early votes in Florida, according to data compiled by The Associated Press from election officials in 11 states.
Those numbers are climbing daily as more states begin their advance voting periods and more voters return mail-in ballots ahead
HuffPostApr 24 2020
Analysis
Trump’s Plan to Save His Presidency
Two key forces that drove Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016 were the cult of personality he attracted and a hard-edged nationalist message. There is no sign that his core followers will ever abandon him. But the Ever Trumpers won’t be enough to win him reelection amid a historic crisis that a majority of the country feels he’s bungled. Trump needs to reach some band of the electorate
The AtlanticNov 19 2020
News
What to do about student loans?
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
Currently, outstanding student loans in the U.S. total ~$1.6 trillion. 45 million Americans hold federal student debt today.Since March 2020, the Department of Education has waived interest payments on federal Abridge NewsJun 11 2019
Opinion
Memo to George Soros and Charles Koch: Fund Campus Debates
At the invitation of Matt Denhart, president of the Coolidge Foundation, I spent an extraordinary day recently speaking to students participating in a Coolidge high school and middle school (!) debate tournament in Raleigh, North Carolina. I watched some students evaluate whether the benefits of attending college exceed the costs. It was a marvelous learning experience for the participants,
Independent InstituteFeb 21 2015
News
AP U.S. History controversy becomes a debate on America
An advanced high school U.S. history course has become the subject of an academic proxy war over what some consider a quasi-sacred national principle: American exceptionalism. The simmering national debate over Advanced Placement U.S. History, an optional high-school course whose final exam can earn students college credit, boiled over this week when an Oklahoma lawmaker sought to replace
Politico