Voting rights are on trial in the United States because of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie.” . Even though the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history,” democracy is under attack. The Big Lie undermined the confidence people have in the voting process.
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In recent years, there have been several documents and documentaries published that present a past that a lot of people want to forget or change. Beginning in 1619, a year before Pilgrims dropped anchor in Plymouth, enslaved African people arrived on the shores of Jamestown on the ship White Lion. Urged by Nikole Hannah-Jones, an American investigative journalist, [1] the New York Times has documented this in its 1619 Project[2] and in the new origins story in Hannah-Jones’s book of the same name.[3] The project aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding it with the beginning of American slavery and exploring the consequences and contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story of America.
Read MoreThis is an article about climate change and how it affected people in the U.S. I that I am republishing from the Conversation.
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The unprecedented attack on the nation’s Capitol building, encouraged by Trump and other actors who appeared on the rally stage on January 6, may result in sedition charges against the former president and his sycophants.
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Update: The GOP cancelled the meeting because Trump cancelled his!!
A group of Republicans will meet at the Cobb GOP headquarters at 799 Roswell St NE, Marietta, GA 30060, which is about 6 miles from my home. I won’t be there. But if you are so inclined, you can witness a bunch of people who think that the insurrectionists were patriots. They weren’t. They participated in political violence, and were out to kill elected representatives of the U.S. government, especially Vice President Mike Pence, and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. And for your information, the program will begin at 5 P.M. but be there at 4:30 to register and have some Trump vodka.
COVID-19 is not behind us. Omicron is a reminder that COVID-19 is not only spreading faster than Delta, but that this virus is another mutation as it continues to infect populations around the world. More than 300,000 people a day in the US are getting infected. In fact, the Omicron variant has overtaken Delta in the number of infections each day in most of the world.
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I want to tell you about a book that was just published in the field of science education. It’s a book that I was asked to write the forward. I’ve never been asked to write a forward for a book. But I was honored, and I want to encourage you to examine this book, whether you are a science educator, a scientist or a citizen interested in public education.
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During the years of Trump, global collaboration was diminished to a whimper. Banning people from...
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This post focuses on education and climate as seen by a teen living in Atlanta in the year 2051. I originally published it on April 21, 2012. Although a work of fiction, it is presented here as a reminder of the consequences of making decisions based on faulty reasoning and ignorance. I am re-publishing it today ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland
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St. Mary’s is a small town on the coast of Georgia at the border with Florida. In a graduate...
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