I’m Proud of My Fellow Texans!
The New York Times reports: Texas Governor Gregg Abbott and the Republican-controlled legislature are eager to pass legislation making it harder to vote, especially for...
Category : Democracy
Nancy Bailey: Can We Save Our Democratic Public Schools?
Nancy Bailey writes here about the growing influence and persistence of the billionaire-funded groups that want to privatize our nation’s public schools. Despite the substantial...
Stanford Study: High School Students Lack Digital Skills to Spot Fake News
We live in an age when politicians, advertisers, and others develop and distribute fake news to sell their wares. It’s more important than ever for...
Republicans Plan to Steal 2024 Election
Max Boot, former conservative, wrote about the partisan attack on the elections of 2022 and 2024. Republicans are setting in place the process to steal...
100 Scholars: Our Democracy is at Risk
Republican-controlled state legislatures are writing scores of new laws to restrict voting. Some are passing laws that would permit the legislature to reverse the will...
Arizona: Were Voting Machines Corrupted by Private Contractors?
The Arizona State Senate hired a private firm, whose owner is a Trump supporter, to conduct an audit of the 2020 ballots in Maricopa County....
Tom Ultican: Why I Support Public Education
Tom Ultican explains why he spends so much of his time fighting for public schools. The original cause for my supporting public education was that...
Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written...
Jeanne Kaplan: The Battle Against Deformers in Denver is Always Uphill
Jeanne Kaplan is a veteran civil rights activist who was elected to serve two terms on the Denver school board. She has been active in...
Jack Schneider: What is “Public” about Public Education?
Jack Schneider is a historian of education at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. He and Jennifer Berkshire recently published a superb book, A Wolf...