I shared the September PBS NewsHour report "Is the American Dream still achievable for younger generations?" with my English composition students this week as we begin our Gen Z and the Workplace theme for their second research essay. I found this report, which is part of PBS senior ...
Latin America is turning right, and it's a vindication for President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In some ways, the Cold War never really ended in the Western hemisphere: Socialism has haunted the nations of Central and South America long after the fall of the Berlin ...
Since President Donald Trump displays a ferocious disdain for any suggestion that he could be wrong about anything, I hope he will not try to consult the AI fact-checker he has unleashed against himself. Last week, the White House unveiled America.gov, a search tool it declared to be no less ...
You might have heard. Babe Ruth played in Sleepy Eye. For thirty years, I’ve tugged and pulled at that game in every possible way. My fascination with that day in my hometown’s history began when I was doing research for the Brown County Historical Society thirty years ago for an exhibit: ...
Parents will say how bright, smart, and gifted their amazing children are…and they may be. A child may be quite impressive in one or more areas. Maybe he or she is gifted and maybe not. Psychologists will call a child gifted when his or her performance at something is superior to how well ...
Any time spent on social media — X in particular — makes it very clear that conservative Americans are utterly fed up with congressional Republicans. And with good reason. The current (119th) Congress has set records for what The Washington Post called "low legislative output" — second ...
