Jeff Sessions Just Accused Colleges of Creating “Sanctimonious, Sensitive, Supercilious Snowflakes”
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions looks on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned that colleges and universities are “coddling” young people instead of encouraging them to engage with different viewpoints. At a high school leadership…
Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States
Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…
Oops! Federal Officials Divulged Secret Info About Native American Artifacts
Jacob W. Frank/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Federal officials mistakenly published confidential information on locations and descriptions of about 900 ancient cliff dwellings, spiritual structures, rock art panels and other Native…
“I’m Rested and Ready to Fight”—The Reverend Barber’s Battle Cry Is One for the Ages
Anne Wernikoff Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reverend William Barber II was born just two days after the historic March on Washington, and he went on to become one of the most prominent civil rights leaders in the South. Now, fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr’s first Poor People’s…
A DNA Test, Vague WhatsApp Messages, and Home Visits: A Mother Fights to Get Her Daughter Back
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya opened her mouth, and a gloved hand gave each cheek a perfunctory brush with a cotton swab. Fifteen seconds, and the $429 DNA test she’d paid for was over. “Eso es todo,” the lab technician said last Thursday. That…
A New Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Education Department Is Failing Students of Color With Disabilities
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing in June 2018. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a federal lawsuit against Trump’s Education Department, challenging the…