Should you take selfies in a ballot booth?
A law in N.H. seeks to protect people from having to prove they voted a certain way, but it may ban speech that should be protected.
Social Studies
Man arrested for sexual assault of 14-year-old girl
A man from an affluent suburb of Chicago has been charged with setting up a gang rape of a 14-year-old Chicago girl.
Mich. parent can carry handgun into school
A circuit court in Michigan is allowing a licensed owner of a handgun to carry it into an elementary school.
Disciplined N.J. student was not a bully
N.J. parents sued a school for labeling their son as a bully when all he did was identify a girl who had lice.
No change in NAEP 8th-grade social studies
NAEP has released data from the 2014 social studies examination for 8th graders in the US: no significant change from the results in 2010.
Not everything that counts can be counted
Employees at a big mega-sales company that was born on the Internet are abused, not unlike teachers in our schools.
DNA can be used to investigate unrelated crimes
The 4th Amendment, protection against unreasonable searches, took center stage in a Md. case about police using DNA to solve unrelated crimes.
Visiting the Black History Museum in Alexandria
A Black History Museum in Alexandria, Va., has much to teach us about the history of literacy in the US. It's small but moving.
The South will not rise again
Texas will be using new textbooks this fall, which give slavery an inferior billing when it comes to what started the Civil War. Wrong.
Music moves us, and we should pay for it
Taylor Swift convinced Apple Computer to pay artists royalties even while consumers stream their music for free. Why is that important?