Where all sides (will) meet
Much of the time, American politics, regardless of party, are framed around the future of America’s children, who don’t get a vote until they turn eighteen (even though some of them will start paying taxes earlier). So why does it seem that the voices of young people, even young adults, aren’t taken seriously?
As a follow-up to yesterday’s celebration of Indigenous People’s Day, a carry-on into the upcoming Thanksgiving season, and a general thought about the current state of American education, here is an article from the High Country News on the country’s land-grant universities, how they came to exist from a war-torn America, and what they’re doing with some of that land now.
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, we explore Beringia, Two Spirits, Code Talkers, Little Bighorn, and modern indigenous America.
It is that month. The one we have every four years, in which Americans are battered daily with presidential election fireworks until they just want to fall asleep and not wake up again until Christmas morning. This year, however, we’re not sure when Christmas morning is coming, and the fireworks have been going off all year.
As September 18 marked the passage of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the bona fide champion of women’s rights, America quite viscerally felt the end of an era.
A brief relationship history of America’s Thin Blue Line and America’s Black population, from post-Civil War beginnings to modern day protests.
