Education

Trigger warning: The following discusses themes of race, gender, “hate” speech ... Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit -- and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses. She points out the absurdity of the left’s attack on Western civilization. “For the left to claim that the West is the source of inequity in the…

In the latest episode of Apple TV+'s Shrinking ("D-Day"), which ironically aired during National Marriage Week, a heartwarming scene between Harrison Ford's Paul and teen Alice (Lukita Maxwell) turns sour when she declares she wants kids but no husband because marriage is a "sexist construct."

The former Global Head of Tech and AI Innovation at Nike Elaine Barsoom joined MRC to explore artificial intelligence and the dangers and benefits associated with its current development track.

Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It’s the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union address that “The era of big government is over.” Emanuel has a stellar political resume that…

Bad camera angles were not the only thing wrong with former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric’s Friday interview with PBS documentarian Ken Burns on her Substack page. After spending much time on Burns’s upcoming series on the American Revolution, the pair moved on to discuss the state of history education in the country more broadly, which Couric described as “going backwards” and Burns labeled…

On Thursday, MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Chris Jansing, and Katy Tur flipped out over immigration agents arresting an illegal alien and teacher, Diana Galeano, who tried to evade police by running into a daycare where she worked, with Scarborough claiming that she was "abducted" by ICE agents.

As if no one would notice, The Washington Post this week headlined, "Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits."

After an illegal alien with a criminal history working as a school superintendent in Des Moines was arrested by ICE, instead of being concerned about how he was hired, MSNBC hosts Alex Witt and Rachel Maddow presented the case sympathetically toward him, with Maddow even lauding him as "beloved."

The Daily Show’s only use for Christianity seems to be using it against conservatives, and the latest installment in this ignoble tradition took place on Tuesday as host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed Sirius XM host, comedian, and occasional cable news talking head John Fugelsang to the Comedy Central program to discuss his new book on the matter.

When I was a kid, childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book, “The Anxious Generation,” talks about that. He calls it “a tragedy in two acts.” “Act One, we lose the play-based childhood. We stop letting kids run around outside. We’re too afraid they’ll get abducted. ... We…

Monday’s PBS News Hour alerted its viewers to a new right-wing threat: Education videos? “Why critics are alarmed about the influence of PragerU’s educational videos," the online heading read. “Alarmed” is a strong word, a promise that journalist Stephanie Sy’s actual report failed to fulfill, Noteworthy that it’s PragerU’s right-leaning world-view expressed in the educational videos…

According to HBO’s John Oliver, the Trump administration’s push to get anti-Semitism out of college campuses is just a ruse to exert control for its own sake. The Last Week Tonight host claimed on Sunday that Trump’s demands on Columbia University represented an “extreme degree of government intrusion” and that Columbia is now “the little birch university” for accepting them.

If politics can be said to be a team sport, then MSNBC host and Thursday Morning Joe panelist Al Sharpton is the coach who puts the ball on the tee, and Rep. Jamie Raskin is the batter who takes the easy swing. Sharpton asked if a federal judge ruling President Trump illegally withheld funding from Harvard proves that his anti-DEI policies are political, and Raskin dutifully replied…

Wednesday morning’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, which left victims two dead and 17 wounded, is being investigated as a hate crime by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.