Principals vs. teachers
Ladies and Gentlemen (and non-binary and gender fluid individuals) welcome to the intermediate round of The Fight Over Control of Our Schools.
In one corner...
The myth of the absent Black father
I am Black. I am a father. I love my children like nobody’s business.
I will not be invisible.
I make this simple declaration because, even...
What, to the Republican, is the nineteenth of June?
The headline above pays homage to one of the most powerful and brilliant speeches in American history. Frederick Douglass, the 19th century’s most eloquent...
Privatization of education undermines civil liberties for students and families
At least one private school in Nevada is searching family computers and using the information they find to shame students and parents into withdrawing,...
What people need to know about critical race theory
The late historian John Henrik Clarke explained the dominant subculture’s preoccupation with manipulating history.
Europeans “began manipulating history in the 15th century to justify the slave trade,”...
Voting rights alone will not save us
Much has been said and written about voting rights this last year and for good reasons. Vote Nevada, a nonprofit founded by Nevadans for...
They’re NOT racists. Just ask them.
“The lady doth protests too much, methinks.”
So says Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, during the play within a play scene toward the end of Hamlet. Shakespeare’s...
UFOs, the Pentagon, and the enigma of Bob Lazar
This month, a highly anticipated report is slated to be delivered to the United States Senate on the subject of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)...
On Memorial Day, remembering the courage of soldiers and war correspondents who told their...
I never fought in the Vietnam War. I joined United Press International, a worldwide wire service, in 1975 at the end of that conflict....
Why?
Republicans in Nevada have been having a field day saying "socialists! socialists! socialists!" ever since some Democratic Socialists of America (oh dear!) won state...