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August 1, 2024

Give them the world: teach students our nation’s true history

When I was a little girl, I was nourished with healthy food, clean drinking water, safe housing, access to education, adequate medical care, and the loving support of family and friends. As a result, I became an idealist, a perpetual optimist, a lover of people, and a dreamer. It seemed that the world was a magical place where anything was possible.

July 25, 2024

Groups seek to gut Wilderness Act on its 60th anniversary

A handful of mountain bikers have partnered with a notoriously anti-Wilderness senator to introduce legislation in the U.S. Senate that would gut the 1964 Wilderness Act during this, the 60th anniversary of that landmark law.

July 18, 2024

Democrats and Republicans don’t actually hate each other

Representative Kevin Crutchfield, a Republican from North Carolina’s 83rd District, strode to the back of the state legislature building, where four House pages — high school students who help out at the state legislature — were seated.

July 11, 2024

Three paths forward for immigration policy

This November, voters will choose between two radically different paths of immigration policy. Should Donald Trump be re-elected president, the nation will embark on a path of deportation, or the attempted deportation, of millions of people living in the U.S. Should Joe Biden or another Democrat occupy the White House next year, the country will likely continue its present course of political compromise: continued restrictions at the border, along with continued or new accommodations for immigrants living here without green cards or citizenship.