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  • Over Half of Hispanic Voters Support Citizenship Question on Census

    Over Half of Hispanic Voters Support Citizenship Question on Census0

    A poll released earlier this month includes a finding that may surprise those who say adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census will result in minority communities not being properly counted. Among the Hispanic registered voters polled in the survey sample for Harvard University’s latest national monthly public policy poll, 55% say they are in

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  • Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year

    Over 6,000 Title IX Complaints Filed by One Person Last Year0

    Even modest and long-overdue budget cuts draw criticism. The Trump administration proposed cutting the budget of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from $108.5 million to $106.7 million — a “minuscule amount,” notes education researcher George Leef. Yet the liberal columnist Colbert King claimed this tiny 1.66% cut would have somehow “gutted” civil rights

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  • Outlander is Boosting a Renaissance of the Scots Language – Here’s How

    Outlander is Boosting a Renaissance of the Scots Language – Here’s How0

    What would ye twa cotters ken o’ battle, eh? I bet ye Lallybroch tumshies will turn arse and run at first blast o’ cannon fire… Pithy Scots brogue and throwaway insults punctuate Outlander, the phenomenally successful TV series that explores the final great Jacobite uprising of 1745 – the rebellion against King George II led

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  • Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?

    Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?0

    A year ago, Ellen Stofan, a chief scientist at NASA, made a bold prediction on the question of the discovery of alien life in the universe: I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years

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  • Out of the Mouth of Babes: The Unseen Abortion Fallout

    Out of the Mouth of Babes: The Unseen Abortion Fallout6

    That day Julie decided they would eat lunch on the deck. She carried out a tray with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, baby carrots, grapes, a cup of juice for Libby and a bottled water for herself, and put them on the picnic table. “There,” she said. “We won’t even need forks or spoons, and

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  • Our Words Matter: Writing in the Age of Communication

    Our Words Matter: Writing in the Age of Communication0

    In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the

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