Poll: Republicans Think Colleges ‘Bad for America’
Raise your hand if you are surprised. A new poll released by the Pew Research Center shows that a majority of Republicans believe “Kollidges is BAD fer ‘Murica!” 58 percent…
Bristol Palin Is Everything Wrong With ‘Purity Culture’
Insanity is commonly defined as repeating the same action over and over again expecting a different result each time. Bristol Palin, who is now pregnant for a second time without ever actually…
‘What’s The Matter With Campus?’ (Culture Wars, Of Course)
The protests unfolding on college campuses across the country this week did not happen in a vacuum, nor did they emerge mysteriously and whole-formed like Venus born from a shell. What you are seeing…
Hell Freezes Over As Alabama Lowers The Confederate Flag
As a native of the Heart of Dixie, I honestly never thought I’d live long enough to see today happen. This morning, Governor Robert Bentley ordered the confederate flags removed from Alabama’s…
Alabama State House Prioritizes Abortion, Low Taxes
Tomorrow at 1 PM, the Alabama House of Representatives will take up legislation to ban abortion providers from operating within 2,000 feet of a school. The item is listed as…
(VIDEO) What Republicans Don’t Want You To Know About America’s ‘Failing’ Schools
Every three years, 15-year-old students around the world take a test called the PISA, and every three years Republicans and neoliberals see our kids’ scores and scream about America’s “failing” schools. Since the Organization…
FIRE’s Aggressive Lawsuit Campaign Targets Campus Speech, Sexual Assault Policies
After 15 years of writing policy papers and serving as experts in the media, The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a small branch of the vast-spanning Koch billionaire-funded…
Norquist’s Americans For Tax Reform On The Ground In Philly To Co-Opt E-cigarette Tax Fight
Americans for Tax Reform is on the ground today in Philadelphia, meeting with vapor and e-cigarette businesses to co-opt local business efforts to prevent a tax on vaporized nicotine products.…
Video: Texas Tech Students Don’t Know Who Won The Civil War
A campus group called PoliTech went around interviewing students for a their Youtube show, “Politically-Challenged.” The video illustrates a shocking level of ignorance among students of Texas Tech, a public…
Should Schools Be Allowed To Publicly Shame Kids For Their Clothing?
When 15-year-old Miranda Larkin, a new Orange Park student who just moved from Seattle, went to school in a black skirt about three to four inches above her knees, she…