Policy and Politics

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (82+ words) The Texas State Board of Education is expected to vote on high school social studies standards this week. This comes after overhauling K-8 standards. However, critics are calling this a "whitewashing" of history. FOX 7 Austin's Angela Shen has the details. The…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (136+ words) CHICAGO — The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution announced Tuesday that he will retire after months of accusations from the Trump administration that the national museums he’s led portrayed a skewed and divisive version of the United States. The Trump administration…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (311+ words) Gettysburg Connection The Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College will hold its annual Democracy Week September 14–19 The theme this year is America at 250: Our Democracy, Our World The week will bring together three major programs examining American democracy through history, voting…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (474+ words) STAR EXPLAINS: What are Flock cameras? NIU football clobbered 40-0 at No. 22 Iowa in season opener NIU quarterback battle continues as season nears That time I found confidence wearing my hearing aids Get the Flock out of DeKalb DeKALB – The political…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (294+ words) 14th Secretary To Conclude a Distinguished Career That Includes More Than Three Decades of Smithsonian Service and the Creation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced today he…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (409+ words) Lonnie Bunch III, the Smithsonian's 14th secretary, will retire at the end of 2026 after months of defending the institution from White House criticism. Lonnie Bunch III, the Smithsonian's 14th secretary, announced on Tuesday that he will retire at the end of 2026, closing…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (508+ words) Citizenship is a familiar word. What Americans expect from it, what self-government requires of the people living under it, and how those responsibilities have evolved across nearly 250 years of American democracy are considerably larger questions. Those questions will come to…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (647+ words) Smithsonian secretary to retire after having been with the US museum organisation for nearly 38 years Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum organisation, announced this week that he is retiring. Bunch has been the head…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (434+ words) Progressive Policy Institute Teaching American Democracy: Understanding Who We Are As Americans and Why America has an extraordinary tale to tell. In a world of kings and queens, the founders created a revolutionary system of self-governance aimed at honoring political…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (331+ words) A talk about how to achieve happiness and an exploration of the country's founding ideals will fuel Grand Canyon University's inaugural Canyon Civic Conference. “When you say civic engagement, students assume it is limited to those that are in the…...