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Aug 17 2020
Analysis
3 ways to get kids to tune in and pay attention when schools go virtual
When nearly all U.S. brick-and-mortar schools suddenly closed in March 2020 and went online, large numbers of students simply didn’t log into class. Even if they did show up, many more weren’t paying much attention or doing their schoolwork. As a new school year gets underway, is there anything that teachers and families can do to curb these problems with remote learning due to COVID-19?
The Conversation
Aug 18 2014
News
After Brown autopsy, mom wants officer arrested
A preliminary autopsy report has convinced the family of Michael Brown that the police officer who shot him should be arrested, a lawyer for the family said Monday.
"His mother asked the questions that ... lawyers could not answer. What else do we need to get them to arrest the killer of my child?" lawyer Benjamin Crump said at a news conference here.
USA TODAY
Feb 01 2021
News
Biden's push for stimulus checks sparks income eligibility debate
President Biden’s push for more direct payments is sparking a debate over what the income thresholds should be for the stimulus checks.
Many Republicans and some centrist Democrats say any additional payments need to be more targeted toward lower-income households, arguing they are most in need of relief and are more likely to spend the money quickly, providing a boost to the economy.
The Hill
Feb 06 2020
News
House passes bill easing bids by workers to form unions
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that supporters said would help working families, the Democratic-controlled House has approved a bill that would make it easier for workers to form unions and bargain for higher wages, better benefits and improved working conditions.
The “Protecting the Right to Organize” or PRO Act would allow more workers to conduct organizing campaigns and would add
Associated Press
Nov 17 2017
News
Hundreds of Conservative Leaders #StandWithRoyMoore
While Washington lawmakers urge Roy Moore to drop out of the Alabama Senate race over allegations that he sexually harassed a number of teenage girls, some as young as 14 years old, in the 1970s, hundreds of pro- family and Christian leaders are standing with him.
CBN
May 06 2020
News
US is unprepared to protect residents from virus while states are reopening, former acting CDC director says
(CNN) - With more than half the country now into at least the first stage of reopening, one expert says the US still hasn't done enough to protect residents from the coronavirus.
"I don't think you can say, how much suffering are you willing to bear in order to restart the economy until you have done everything possible to ensure that every single person in American can take measures to
CNN Digital
Oct 20 2017
News
Clinton pitbull, media attack Kelly after Gold Star general defends Trump condolence call
For a stunning and emotional 18 minutes on Thursday, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly cut through a nasty debate over condolence calls to Gold Star families, appealing to the political class to allow at least this one thing to remain “sacred.”
Fox News Digital
Feb 05 2020
Opinion
The America of Trump’s big speech sounds good, but it’s a deeply incomplete picture
Allow me to take you back. The year is 1957 and “Leave it to Beaver” debuts in black and white on CBS.
The earnest and playful family comedy offers up solvable moral dilemmas and a heaping spoonful of unvarnished optimism in the American Dream for six years and remains for many people one of the greatest television shows of all time.
But one of the reasons the show was so popular
S.E. Cupp
Feb 28 2020
News
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORONAVIRUS
What began with a handful of mysterious illnesses in a vast central China city has traveled the world, jumping from animals to humans and from obscurity to international headlines. First detected on the last day of 2019, the novel coronavirus has infected tens of thousands of people — within China’s borders and beyond them — and has killed more than 4,000. It has triggered unprecedented
Washington Post
May 04 2021
Analysis
The New Trend Keeping Women Out of the Country’s Top Legal Ranks
I’ve started getting the same phone call every couple of weeks at this time of year. It’s always from a woman at a top 10 law school. She is married, wants to have a family and plans to work in constitutional law. But there’s a problem. She’s butting up against a new trend for those competing to join the ranks of constitutional lawyers, judges and scholars: the assumption that those graduating
Politico