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President Biden has been trying to get young voters excited about his 2024 reelection bid, even though polls show they're disappointed with some of his policies.
Today on TAP: They are making a fraught situation worse by letting the far right define antisemitism and the necessary campus responses.
Kids have too much screen time and not enough autonomy, says author Jonathan Haidt. His book The Anxious Generation argues this has caused an epidemic of mental illness and suggests ways to fix it.
More than 5 million college students are also parents. But many colleges do little to support them. Most don't even offer child care.
Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It's shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or not: Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court cases that legalized same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, access to birth control — they've all been built on the back of the 14th. The amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?Today on the show: how the 14th Amendment has remade America – and how America has remade the 14th.Clarification: A previous version of this episode did not make clear that the 14th amendment guarantees equal protection and due process to all people in the United States, regardless of citizenship.
It's a history lesson many of us didn't get in school: Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much of this state. Get to know some of these men and women and the lives they lived. Hear from descendants who reflect on their loved ones. And learn from historians and experts going on a journey of discovery to recover this hidden history.In this five-part episode podcast from Connecticut Public, Reporter/Producer Diane Orson and Editorial Consultant and Curator Frank Mitchell talk about some of the issues in, and around these stories.Visit www.ctpublic.org/unforgotten to learn more, including additional videos, photos and digital stories.
"According to legend, John Henry, the African-American folk hero, took his nine-pound hammer and drilled through the day and into the night to prove that a man was better than a steam engine at drilling pilot holes in a mine.
For months now, the most distant spacecraft to Earth – Voyager 1 – has been talking gibberish on the interplanetary 'radio'.
Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past — with his metal detector. The 64-year-old history teacher is devoted to finding remnants of the Seminole Wars, and has also found kindred spirits along the way.
Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an array of evangelical projects and conservative Texas politicians. The fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks have each doled out millions of dollars through separate foundations over the last decade to a number of high-profile conservative and religious groups including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. “Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil.
The group found high levels of sodium and the presence of heavy metals in meal kits it tested. A Kraft Heinz spokesperson said all of its products meet strict safety standards.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked education officials from enforcing a law requiring a transgender Hillsborough County teacher to use pronouns that align with her sex assigned at birth, saying the law violated her First Amendment rights.
Teen vaping is trending downwards these days. But data from Colorado and around the country show the generation that made Juul cool is still hooked on nicotine.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced a final rule that will update Title IX regulations governing how schools respond to sexual misconduct, undoing changes made under the Trump administration and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive […]
David Remnick interviews Jonathan Haidt, the author of “The Anxious Generation,” about the effect that social media is having on children’s mental health and how we can reverse course.
Columbia University officials answered lawmaker questions about antisemitism on campus. But Wednesday's hearing played out very differently from the 2023 hearing that grabbed so many headlines.
This edition is about the number one movie currently in the U.S., Alex Garland’s Civil War. Don’t worry if you have not yet seen it. There are no spoilers. Mostly because there is absolutely nothing in the film to spoil. The story, set more or less in the present or the very near future, is about an American Civil War that has torn most of the country apart. There seems to be a vaguely Trumpian President in power. He is in his third term and has dissolved the FBI (though we don’t know if he did this because he was faced with an armed uprising or were these acts the cause of the revolt. He is on the verge of losing the war to something called the Western Forces – an alliance between, are you ready, California and Texas! No, this isn’t an intentional comedy.
Former president Trump says he wants to make America pray again. On this week’s On the Media, hear how Christian nationalism is shaping American politics. Plus, what the new fil
Harvard had initially said it was going to maintain its test-optional policy through the entering class of the fall of 2026.
Clues from Paleo-Archaic peoples open a window to America’s distant past.
United Launch Alliance launched its last Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral early Tuesday afternoon. It makes way for its successor, Vulcan.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on April 17 on the teen safety bill and other proposed laws affecting online media -- including the newly introduced American Privacy Rights Act.
Intercepted host Murtaza Hussain and Sahar Aziz discuss how protests at universities are now being met with a wave of censorship, targeting students.
NASA engineers have narrowed down the problem with the Voyager 1 deep space probe to a single faulty chip. It may now be possible to work around the corrupted memory and return the 47-year old interstellar spacecraft to an operational condition.
Myrtle is thought to be up to 95 years old, which would place her just beyond the upper boundaries of the species' longevity. But the big turtle is “in robust condition” despite her advanced age, the aquarium said.
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