Commentary: What if the reason is not that things are getting worse but that we are getting worse at thinking about things in constructive ways?
🎧 The hosts debate the causes of the crisis at the border and what can be done to help fix this long-term problem.
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The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a bill to reform how Congress certifies electors after a presidential election. That bill (or a similar but slightly weaker Senate one) needs to pass the Senate now.
Is there no end to the mighty powers of our former President Donald Trump?
An international relations expert joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to assess the current state of the war in Ukraine.
This is an opinion column from the opinion page of The Times-Dispatch.
During an annual physical, doctors examine the heart, lungs and other vital organs. Now, a panel of health experts recommends physicians also check patients for anxiety. Dr. Lynn Bufka, from the American Psychological Association, joins CBS News New York's Mary Calvi to explain.
Talking with teachers about the beginning of the school year has me feeling optimistic. Everyone I talk to reports their students are energized, eager and motivated. This is a welcome change from the way students have been feeling for the past couple of years.
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"Once in the not-so-distant past, before jurisdictions gained local control, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted laws to protect Confederate monuments," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has proposed a national U.S. abortion ban barring the procedure after 15 weeks. This push to restrict abortion access across the country follows a rash of new state laws passed by Republicans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has introduced a federal proposal to place reasonable limits on abortion.
The news that Columbia University filed fraudulent data to rise in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings has again raised the question of what these rankings mean. Does anyone imagine that as Columbia “plunged” from No. 2 to No. 18 (as its ranking was reassessed by U.S. News on its own estimated data) that the Columbia students sitting in their classrooms in Upper Manhattan felt the quality of their education slipping away?
In the not-so-distant past, the United States and its European allies were seemingly a stone’s throw away from clinching a nuclear agreement with Iran after 16 months of arduous talks.
Michael Paul Williams and Kelli Lemon are back in the studio talking about some of the recent events in world news.
For most of us, we read to discover new information. Reading can be entertaining, sure, but it is an essential skill for putting the pieces together to learn new things or gain direction.
🎧 The hosts discuss how harm reduction can make the world a safer place.
Biden reassures the public but won’t lift the official COVID emergency
"Somewhere along this two-decade debate about a new ballpark, I dismissed North Boulevard as Nowheresville and extolled the virtues of building a replacement for The Diamond along the South Richmond riverfront," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
"Somewhere along this two-decade debate about a new ballpark, I dismissed North Boulevard as Nowheresville and extolled the virtues of building a replacement for The Diamond along the South Richmond riverfront," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
The best way for the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve its legitimacy is to ignore public opinion.
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Let's have a conversation about immigration. An honest one.
Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth.
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The essence of education at the kindergarten through high school graduation level is the classroom teacher. Teachers typically spend more quality time with students in this age group than their parents, guardians, and other caregivers.
There are a few things you should be asking yourself right about now.
Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. While Newton was describing this phenomenon in relation to physics, the basic principle also applies to society in general.
The “defund” trope has become so politicized that it now gets in the way of, rather than advancing, policy advocacy of any stripe.