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| Jan 21, 2026 | States go their own way as RFK Jr. shifts federal vaccine policy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org
New federal guidance to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 vaccines down to 11 comes as states already are charting their own courses... |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Under Kennedy, America’s health department is in the business of promoting Kennedy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Darius Tahir, KFF Health News
As health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wields one of the louder megaphones the federal government has. Yet he insists he doesn’t want to impo... |
| Feb 1, 2025 | The Trump Era: A Storm of Words and Deportations | The political landscape in the United States is a tempest. At the center of this storm is Donald Trump, a figure who commands attention like a lighthouse in a fog. His return to the presidency has reignited fierce debates, particularly arou... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | National Politics | Donald Trump talks so much that White House stenographers and everyone else is struggling to keep up | Trump’s commentary remains laden with falsehoods, including baseless allegations about voter fraud and assertions that California water policies worsened the recent wildfires. Sometimes he speaks off the cuff about consequential geopolitica... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Survey: Fewer than 1 in 5 adults know about 988 hotline | Data released Nov. 18 by the University of Pennsylvania found that 15% of U.S. adults are familiar with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, a 1% increase from last year. Those individuals from the survey reported that they knew the number ... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | FCG Launches Innovative Debate Platform to Combat Civic Literacy Decline | FCG Inc. is an American technology Company with a mission to create a better society by using the power of technology to nurture Critical Thinking and promote Constructive Dialogue.
Vinish Aravindakshan, Founder of FCG
FCG (Find Common Grou... |
| Sep 12, 2024 | A majority of Americans can't recall most First Amendment rights | Strong support seen for Supreme Court reforms in Annenberg survey
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Less than half of Americans can name most of the rights protected under the First Amendment and under two-thirds can name the thr... |
| May 17, 2024 | National Politics | Taking presidential debates out of commission’s hands virtually guarantees fewer viewers | Debates prior to a party’s nominating process, which Trump skipped this year, are usually organized and broadcast by individual media organizations. The tradition has been different for those organized by the commission during general elect... |
| Apr 5, 2024 | Health | Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists | By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, KFF Health News
From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major “normal” thing they did before the novel coronavirus pandemic dawned, forcing governments worldwide to issue stay-at-home a... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | National Politics | Expect to see AI ‘weaponized to deceive voters’ in this year’s presidential election | Alfred Lubrano | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer
As the presidential campaign slowly progresses, artificial intelligence continues to accelerate at a breathless pace — capable of creating an infinite number of fraudulent images that are har... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | National Politics | How fringe anti-science views infiltrated mainstream politics — and what it means in 2024 | Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News (TNS)
Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at risk for measles, which often leads... |
| Aug 27, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: David Cuillier: Why most Trump trials won’t be televised | By David Cuillier
Americans will have few opportunities to binge-watch the Donald J. Trump trials.
It is unlikely the four court proceedings facing the former president will be televised live, with the exception of the case in Georgia, whic... |
| Jan 10, 2023 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 341: In Defense Of The Global, Open Internet | There have long been attacks on the global, open nature of the internet. Traditionally these came from authoritarian regimes looking to wall off portions of the internet and exert greater control of them, but lately we’ve also been seeing g... |
| Oct 5, 2022 | Is Civic Education About Civics? New RAND Survey Suggests Teachers Think Not. | The RAND Corporation is out with a revealing new examination of how the nation’s teachers think about civic and citizenship education. The survey, of the nation’s public school teachers, was conducted in late 2021 and released last week.... |
| Dec 5, 2021 | Partnerships are key to scaling commitments from Biden’s Summit for Democracy | Vera Zakem Contributor
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Vera Zakem is a senior technology and policy advisor at the Institute for Security and Technology where she leads efforts on democracy and technology and is the founder of Zakem Global Strategies. Fro... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Do We Need To Fix Americans’ Social Security Knowledge? Placing A Survey Into Context | test-takinggetty |
| Nov 10, 2020 | With Malice Toward None: The Role Of Civics Education In The 2020 Election | WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: A man dressed as Abe Lincoln holding a sign that reads, "Malice toward ... [+] none," waits for a rally to begin at the Women's March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Bo... |
| Jun 26, 2020 | The Justice Department’s Good Ideas for Platforms Needn’t Be Done Through Section 230 Reform | The Justice Department’s recently released plan to reform Section 230 has drawn predictably partisan reactions. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, for instance, rejected it, saying, “I have no interest in being an agent of Bill Barr’s spee... |
| Nov 12, 2019 | How to Help Your Students Navigate the News in a Presidential Election Year | For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. It’s a nationwide teachable moment in which the entire country is constantly discussing a hearty list of key standards that is supposed to inform our instruction. I’v... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | Streamlining Congressional Oversight of DHS | Since the Department of Homeland Security was formed in 2002, one singular feature has been the proliferation of congressional oversight. Estimates vary, but at last count well more than 100 different subcommittees have some portion of juri... |
| Jul 18, 2017 | Some People Are Specifically Depressed by Summer | It was 3 pm on a summer Saturday. The sun was shining, birds were chirping, and my neighbors were outside playing with their kids. It was an 80-degree day that most people in a typically cloudy city like Pittsburgh were taking advantage of.... |
| Jan 14, 2017 | Authorizing DHS -- Progress Ahead? | Every year, like clock work, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees produce a National Defense Authorization bill that governs the operations of the Department of Defense for the coming year. Whether you think well or ill of the pro... |
| Oct 10, 2016 | Congress Heal Thyself | As I noted last month, the oldest outstanding recommendation, unfulfilled since the 9/11 Commission report, is for Congress to fix its jurisdicitional morass and provide effective, unified oversight of the Department of Homeland Security. G... |
| May 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (May – July) | Saturday-Sunday, July 30-31 The big news right now Zika cases are surging in Puerto Rico, and health officials fear hundreds of babies could be born with severe brain defects (STAT) A study suggests that all strains of the Zika virus are of... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | Christmas suicide surge is a myth, but what about the January rebound? | Gut Check is a periodic look at health claims made by studies, newsmakers, or conventional wisdom. We ask: Should you believe this?
The Claim: Suicides rise after Christmas, through a postponement effect.
The Backstory: Okay, that’s not the... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Homeland Confusion -- Reforming Congressional Oversight Of DHS | Last September, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) released a Task Force report on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the US Department of Homeland Security. The report made a... |
| We’ll soon have tools to protect infants against RSV. Can we put them to good use? | When scientists, physicians, and public health officials discuss RSV, the talk almost always turns to babies.
This ubiquitous infection can leave small children, especially infants, struggling to breathe. It petrifies parents. When RSV seas... |
| Caroline Kennedy calls Trump HHS pick RFK Jr.‘s vaccine views ‘dangerous’ | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views on vaccines are “dangerous” and rejected by his family, said his cousin, U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy.
President-elect Donald Trump has picked RFK Jr. lead the Department of Health and Human Se... |