Most teenagers spend their Saturdays scrolling TikTok or sleeping past noon. But this past weekend, over 50 students voluntarily gathered at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to do something radically different: debate Texas education policy like seasoned legislators. Welcome to “Stand Up, Speak Up, Shape Texas,” the youth policy summit that’s flipping civic...
A Ku Klux Klan women’s group that reportedly passed out recruitment cards during a Halloween parade in a Pennsylvania town denied putting the promotional material in a child’s candy bucket. News of the Women of Ku Klux Klan’s presence at a parade in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, sparked outrage in the community and drew massive attention on...
A 68-year-old Democratic senator captivated Washington with an extraordinary 22-hour Senate floor speech that ended Wednesday, as he made an impassioned case against what he describes as presidential authoritarianism threatening American democracy. Jeff Merkley of Oregon began filibustering at 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday evening and continued speaking through Wednesday afternoon, standing continuously beside placards declaring...
The Trump administration thought it had finally put out a recent fire when it confirmed the withdrawal of a controversial nominee accused of sending vile racist messages. But what was meant to look like accountability quickly turned into another embarrassment. President Donald Trump’s nominee for a top federal ethics post is out, but not gone...
In the late 1970s, a young woman spent six hours daily traveling by bus and train from her family home near Nara to attend university. She loved heavy metal bands and Kawasaki motorcycles, dreaming of independence while her mother insisted she remain at home until marriage. That woman, Sanae Takaichi, just made history as Japan’s...
President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to rewrite history blew up on him this week. Now he’s facing mounting backlash and accusations of lying after new footage surfaced showing him promising one thing and reality revealing another. A viral clip posted to X shows Trump boasting in July that construction of the 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom...
