A former Kansas middle school teacher who was suspended for refusing to use the preferred name and pronouns of a student has been awarded $95,000 in a lawsuit settlement, her attorneys announced this week.
Pamela Ricard, a teacher who previously taught math at Fort Riley Middle School, was formally reprimanded and suspended for three days in April 2021 for addressing a student by their “legal and enrolled last name” rather than their preferred first name.
Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana are on a mission to detail the scope and depth of how the Biden administration is using Big Tech companies like Facebook/Meta to curb the free-speech rights of Americans. On the heels of shocking comments by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the FBI’s role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, initial e-mails related to a lawsuit filed by Schmitt and Landry show even more evidence that the Biden administration is using Big Tech to do what it is not, allowed to do according to the Constitution.
Extinction Rebellion supporters infiltrated the House of Commons chamber to superglue themselves to the speaker’s chair.
A photograph posted on Twitter by the climate activists shows three campaigners clasping hands in front of the seat.
Two others hold up signs reading “citizens assembly now” and “let the people decide”.
The US has welcomed a long-awaited report by the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, which concludes that China’s policies in Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity. The BBC’s John Sudworth, who spent many years covering the story and was eventually forced out of China as a result, considers what it tells us about the country.
At the heart of the Xinjiang story is one of the most important questions of our time. What is China?
A rising superpower, growing ever more prosperous and now deeply embedded into our economies and supply chains, but one that runs a programme of draconian mass incarceration.
How do we understand the relationship between these two realities?
Covid lockdowns did no favors to Americans’ mental health, but many psychologists are occupied by other matters. Consider the transformation of the American Psychological Association, which, over the past two years, has committed itself—and the field of psychology along with it—to identity politics.
In the West alternative models of civilization are competing for the upper hand and the healthy one is losing.
In an age like ours, so talkative and so free, it is always a bit surprising to see a certain moderation, to put it mildly, about events such as the stabbing of the novelist Salman Rushdie, threatened since 1989 for his ” irreverence towards Islam ”, or the beheading of a professor in front of a French school. The point is that in the West alternative models of civilization are competing for the upper hand and the healthy one is losing.
There is, of course, our heritage, built on Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. The legacy of Europe, the legacy of the West. But two strong rivals have emerged from this legacy.
One of these is imported: Islam, which is not just a metaphysical faith, but an alternative civilization to ours and which wants to replace it.
It’s not just about stopping the virtue signalling. It’s about cracking down on shocking gang violence
As the appalling spate of gun murders in Liverpool has tragically shown, there is a sub-culture of violent crime in too many communities in towns and cities across the UK.
Such horrific criminality is nothing new, but the growing role of “street gangs” – willing to resort to shocking levels of violence – is. Run by adults, they use children as young as 10 to do much of their dirty work. Often drawn from dysfunctional homes, they are induced or coerced into the gangs, where they run drugs and weapons for the leadership.
Should we return to the Moon? Or go to Mars? It’s a very deep and consequential divide
For many, the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 (after a botched attempt earlier this week) undoubtedly seems the start of a new and exciting era in space exploration. Not only is the US finally planning to return to the Moon — this time to build a permanent outpost on the lunar surface — but in just a few months Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be sending its gigantic Starship, theoretically capable of carrying 100 astronauts, into Earth orbit.
A man wakes up in San Francisco, has breakfast, showers, and gets ready for work. As he opens his front door, he discovers a fresh deuce on the stoop of his seven-million-dollar row home. In a previous time, he would have noticed it earlier in the morning when he went to fetch the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times or Wall Street Journal newspapers.
The menacing actions of Trump and his acolytes are a reaction to the left-wing ideology wrecking American institutions
You don’t need to leave the country these days to get a sense of what the rest of the world makes of America. Despite the rise of alternative sources of global power, the world’s obsession with the US is greater than ever, and everyone on the planet with access to a phone can share their views of the condition of the once unrivalled superpower.
But it can still be instructive to travel abroad to get a proper sense of what others are seeing and hearing and, after a couple of delightful weeks in old Europe, I can confirm that the rest of the world clearly thinks the United States has gone mad.
An employee leading the activism said Tuesday that she does not believe in “the idea of a Jewish ethno-state.”
Google signed a contract last year with Amazon to provide cloud services to the Israeli government. Israel is using the contract in various government agencies for purposes such as education, health care, and transportation.
Many Google employees have argued that the company’s business relationship with the Israeli government is morally reprehensible, claiming that Israel is engaged in war crimes or is oppressing Palestinians.
The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago feels like peak Russiagate. There’s the synchronized press hysteria, moving from one absurd end-of-America “bombshell” to the next, accompanied by dark intonations regarding secrets about to be revealed and blustering accusations of high treason. Donald Trump was said to be hoarding “nuclear documents,” which he planned to peddle for billions to the Saudis. Who’s buying the map of Fort Knox? Does Trump have access to Colonel Sanders’ secret fried chicken recipe, too?
Last week, U.S. President Joe Biden announced his administration would be forgiving up to US$20,000 in student loans for low- and middle-income borrowers, reducing the debt load for more than 40 million Americans.
Some student groups, as well as the federal NDP, have called on the federal government to do the same here in Canada, but experts are divided over whether cancelling student debt is the best way to help young Canadians.
Not fair to anyone who has paid it back.
It’s one of the great questions that humans have been pondering for virtually all of recorded history and likely even before we came up with the concept of a written language. Are we alone in the universe, or are there other civilizations out there, possibly even species that are vastly technologically more advanced than us? And if that’s possible, have any of them been able to cross the daunting interstellar darkness and visit us? These are all questions that are tackled this week by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon in an article titled “The Paradox of Fermi’s Paradox.”
Back in the 1950s, Enrico Fermi posed a series of questions regarding life in our universe. People have long speculated that there must be countless other civilizations out there, given the staggering number of stars in all of the galaxies we can see. But, Fermi essentially asked, if life is so abundant, “where is everybody?”
