HOUSTON – Houston police have released photos of three individuals suspected of a deadly shooting that left one man dead and another critically wounded at a local gas station. According to a post from Houston police, the photos capture three suspects allegedly connected with the deadly gas station incident. Residents have expressed concern over rampant […]
Donald Trump‘s campaign and supporters are claiming US President Joe Biden banned religious symbols from the White House’s Easter celebrations and proclaimed the Christian holiday Transgender Day of Visibility. This is misleading; the youth egg art contest’s rules followed guidelines that have been in place for decades, and Easter — which falls on a different […]
The Booker Prize-winning author, Douglas Stuart, has lent his support to the Aye Write book festival, which has been cancelled this year as a funding bid was refused. The Glasgow-born author of Shuggie Bain also offered a sharp critique of arts and culture funding in Scotland, comparing it unfavourably to Ireland’s. Other writers who have […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Trustees of Tennessee’s only publicly funded historically Black university were removed Thursday under legislation signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee. Black lawmakers and community leaders said state leaders, a majority of whom are white, are unfairly targeting Tennessee State University. The legislation cleared the state GOP-controlled House on Thursday […]
A Russian-backed “propaganda” network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries. Investigators claimed it used the popular Voice of Europe website as a vehicle to pay politicians. The Czech Republic and Poland said the network aimed to influence European elections. Voice of Europe […]
China is believed to have targeted a group of senior MPs and peers with a fresh series of cyberattacks aimed at undermining UK democracy. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden is expected to tell the UK Parliament on Monday that Beijing is behind a wave of state-backed interference, the Sunday Times reported. A small group of […]
When Sandra Johnson was a little girl, her father would ask her the same two questions at the end of every day. Were you the best you could be? Did you do the best you could do? Seven decades later, his little girl walked into the Minnesota Legislature, counting each step on the grand staircase […]
A new study published in Election Law Journal reveals politicians’ widespread exploitation of a loophole to skirt the law barring campaigns from coordinating with outside spending groups. It’s a strategy that takes place not in smoke-filled rooms or encrypted chats, but out in the open. Campaigns leave a directive to groups on their public-facing websites […]
Two former Ohio Supreme Court justices say voter-approved changes to curb partisan gerrymandering failed because of one simple reason: self-serving politicians. Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, a Republican, and former Justice Yvette McGee Brown, a Democrat, instead pitched their proposal to replace elected officials with a 15-member citizen commission to draw congressional […]
While Senate Bill 202 has become law, its threat to academic freedom is worth watching. David Horowitz launched an assault on higher education in 2005, not too dissimilar to the McCarthyite attacks on higher education in the 1950s. He and a variety of organizations, such as the National Association of Scholars, sought to purge higher […]
The union representing prison employees said it was concerned over the lack of details in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan to overhaul two major Illinois prisons, while advocates for incarcerated people expressed cautious optimism that the proposal could improve conditions for those locked up in the aging, dilapidated facilities. The governor’s office on Friday announced its […]
While I am not a historian and certainly not a political historiographer, I have a curious interest in presidential history and have visited all but three of the Presidential libraries or home sites, except for the last four. Included in my travels, I have read historical documents and biographies of all presidents except for Obama, […]