In Close Call, Court Upholds Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that race may play a role in congressional districting maps in the interest of nondiscrimination.
Social Studies
Pandemic stress aged teens’ brains
Stress from the pandemic seems to have caused some premature aging in adolescent brains. No word yet if it's permanent.
Supreme Court to rule, again, on college admissions
Does affirmative action in college admissions make sense? Does it help students, universities, or society at all?
Is this critical race theory?
In teaching America's racist past, including the Jim Crow laws, a TN judge ruled that kids should be allowed to use their own minds to decide.
Illinois now requires lessons on media literacy
Can you separate truth and fake news on social media? Opinion vs fact? You'll learn about it in school, thanks to a new IL law.
Commentary on a few political races
Personal opinions (an editorial) about the Senate race in Georgia and governor's race in Pennsylvania.
A Black woman now sits on the Supreme Court
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her role as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court, beginning a high-profile term.
Some students say Ukraine war is overshadowed
The war between Russia and Ukraine rages on, student newspapers report, yet most students aren't paying attention anymore.
Movie review: The U.S. and the Holocaust
Don't miss this documentary series; it examines racism & antisemitism in the US during Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany.
Neb. school gags student paper after LGBTQ articles
School administrators shut down (censored) a student newspaper because 2 LGBTQ-related opinion pieces were published.