By now, we have all heard about, or been touched by the nationwide teacher shortage. To put it into perspective, data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that more than 50% of all public schools in the country reported that they were understaffed at the beginning of the ...

One of the things that do not seem to have been made great again by former President Donald Trump is Americans’ respect for the Supreme Court. Yanked hard to the hard Right by Trump’s appointment of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the Court has auto-plunged ...

When considering the knotty problem of affirmative action, it’s important to bear in mind, as some of the Supreme Court’s dissenters failed to do, that the issue is no longer black versus white, in every sense of that term. We are a multiethnic country, and discriminating against one ...

Americans who are, as the Bible describes Joshua, “well stricken in years” might remember images of events that preceded passage of the “public accommodations” provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There were 1960 photos of a Black students’ sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter in ...

Picture us as peasants in medieval Europe again. We have no human rights, a concept far in the future. That’s how the Supreme Court likes it. Six Catholics powerfully rule the land now, wielding religious beliefs like a weapon. They are known as “justices.” They are anything but, yet ...

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream wants the United States to return the Blacks Hills to the Lakota. Which raises the question: Once this transfer takes place, will the Lakota turn around and give the Black Hills back to the tribes they took them from? It’s never a good idea to get history ...