Children across the United States are being barred from reading books—not by their parents or teachers, but by their state governments. In January alone, Katy Independent School District banned over 140 LGBTQIA+ books from school libraries. Language around book bans has been intentionally ambiguous, but PEN America defines the process in clear terms as “...any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by governmental officials, that leads to a book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished.”
Read moreOn Monday, September 15, as the new school year began on campus at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, the body of 21-year-old student Demartravion “Trey” Reed was found hanging from a tree near the campus pickleball courts.
Read moreRepublican George Santos is the House Representative for the 3rd District of New York. After a failed run for office in 2020, Santos defeated his Democratic opponent in the November 2022 election. In late December 2022, news broke that Santos had lied about his resume. On December 26, Santos conceded that he had embellished his resume and apologized, but stressed that he did not break any laws. Just two days later, however, the Nassau County District Attorney opened an investigation into Santos's questionable background. Since then, Santos has been accused of a plethora of lies, from lying about working for Goldman Sachs, to misusing campaign funds, to stealing money from a GoFundMe for a veteran's sick dog.
Read moreYou may be surprised that 714,153 Americans are taxed without representation. How is this possible? The answer is simple: Washington D.C. is not a state. Why isn’t D.C. a state? The answer to that question is complicated and is currently inspiring a heated debate in Congress.
Read moreThe biggest controversy this summer that concerned the New York Giants, the National Football League team based in East Rutherford, NJ involved one of their star players, Jason Pierre-Paul...
Read moreIt’s the most wonderful time of the year -- for those of us who derive pleasure from the antics of the Republican presidential primaries. This past week, eleven top-polling candidates gathered to vie for both the 2016 nomination and the most convincing embodiment of the retrospectively declared saintly principles of Ronald Reagan, whose presidential library aptly served as the location for the CNN debate.
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