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  • NY Teacher’s Assignment Compares Police to KKK, Slave Owners

    NY Teacher’s Assignment Compares Police to KKK, Slave Owners0

    On the first day of classes, a high school teacher in Westchester County issued an assignment that included a comic style strip comparing police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members, the New York Post reported. The assignment was part of a chapter on “European Colonization of America,” given by Westlake High School

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  • NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths

    NY Admits to Intentionally Undercounting COVID Nursing Home Deaths0

    On May 7, I wrote about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial policy of prohibiting eldercare facilities from screening recently discharged hospital patients for COVID-19. The order, passed by New York’s Department of Health on March 25, stated: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed

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  • Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity

    Nuclear Option Restores Senate Sanity0

    Via Ilya Shapiro at Cato: “Thursday’s removal of the filibuster – a parliamentary tool effectively requiring 60 votes to proceed with a vote on a matter – for Supreme Court nominees is the long overdue denouement of a process that began not with Senate Republicans’ refusal to vote on Merrick Garland, or even Harry Reid’s

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  • Nuance in Social Media? What We Are Losing in the Binary

    Nuance in Social Media? What We Are Losing in the Binary3

    If there’s anything studying philosophy has taught me, it’s that black-and-white issues are incredibly few and far between. Most anything can be questioned, most any terms redefined, and most any argument examined from a dozen different angles. For this reason, I’ve found myself frustrated by the lack of nuance that most social mediums provide. Particularly

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  • NPR: High School Grad Rate “Isn’t Worth the Paper It’s Printed On”

    NPR: High School Grad Rate “Isn’t Worth the Paper It’s Printed On”0

    • June 12, 2015

    It’s the end of the school year and by now just about every graduating senior has donned cap and gown and walked across the stage to receive his or her diploma. Statistics place national graduation rates at 81% – a percentage that has risen amidst much acclamation in recent years. But according to an investigation by NPR,

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  • NPR: Gun Homicides in Chicago Reach ‘Startling Number’

    NPR: Gun Homicides in Chicago Reach ‘Startling Number’0

    Demarco Webster Jr. didn’t like going outdoors, his father said. Sadly, it’s not hard to see why. In October, the 14-year-old was gunned down while trying to help his father, who was moving, tie a mattress onto a vehicle.   Webster was one of more than 700 homicides in Chicago this year, NPR reported Wednesday,

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