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Europe’s wooing of Africa is hampered by history

A Father-Daughter Double Jacket Duo

A Father-Daughter Double Jacket Duo Superadmin Tue, 05/05/2026 - 14:20 Sherman Lofton Jr. has been a Yellow Jacket for more than 40 years, as a student, alumnus, and employee, currently serving as the senior director of…

The Spirit of the Declaration, Part 1

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] Though Thomas Jefferson's phrases in the Declaration of Independence…

Adventures in Streaming: Ireland’s comedy shines on the small screen

Italian inspiration notwithstanding, one can’t help thinking of that famous quote when considering Ireland’s output of film and television in the past few decades. Cursed by the violence and division of its history, the…

How the Slaveholding Founders Really Felt About Slavery

The Declaration of Independence accused the king and Parliament of Great Britain of "exciting domestic insurrections" among the half-million people enslaved in the American colonies. This was a reference to the November…

Funding roundup

Drake State Community and Technical College recently celebrated a $5 million gift from the E. Hart Fund — the single largest donation in the college’s history — made in honor of the late Ellenae Fairhurst. This follows…

What Ghana’s foreign-built landmarks tell us about its global relationships

The call to prayer echoes across the neighbourhood as people congregate under the sweeping domes and tall minarets of Ghana’s National Mosque in Accra . For many, it is a place of faith, community and national pride.…

Art students flourish through Ohio State externship program

More than 100 undergraduate students at The Ohio State University have worked as “externs” with area arts organizations since 2023, when the university received $2 million from the Mellon Foundation to support student…

The lasting appeal of homeschooling: What motivated families to continue after schools reopened post-pandemic

A mother leads her 7- and 9-year-old sons in a morning lesson during homeschool in Buffalo, Minn., in September 2023. Nicole Neri for The Washington Post via Getty Images When schools abruptly closed their doors at the…

Gorsuch Says SCOTUS Is Doing 'Pretty Darn Well' in Handling the 'Hardest Cases'

My Reason colleague Nick Gillespie recently sat down with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch for a conversation about Gorsuch's new children's book, Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence ,…

Today in Supreme Court History: May 5, 1992

5/5/1992: The 27th Amendment is ratified. It was initially proposed in 1789. No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives…

The Happy Capitalism of Richard Scarry's Busytown

Farmer Alfalfa heads to town with an old truck full of corn. The truck is on the verge of collapse. But after selling his corn to Grocer Cat, Farmer Alfalfa uses the money to buy a new truck. On another day, Alfalfa…

International students as a national project: how states brand their higher education

by Evelyn Kim, Annette Bamberger and Sazana Jayadeva From student choice to state strategy International student mobility is often framed as a story of individual aspiration. Students, it is widely assumed, choose…

Criminal complaint filed against Norwegian politicians over complicity in Gaza genocide

Criminal complaint filed against Norwegian politicians over complicity in Gaza genocide Submitted by Daniel Tester on Mon, 05/04/2026 - 16:37 Exclusive: Prosecutors recommend police investigation into Prime Minister…

What If the Rules About How Teachers Work Together Were Also Just Made Up?

By: Courtney Ochi In a recent piece by Rebecca Midles , George Philhower of Indiana’s Microschool Collaborative offered a provocation worth sitting with: “Nearly all the rules we play by in education today were made up…

New Caps on Federal Student Lending Could Impact Schools of Education

Politicians of both parties have decided to do something about the $1.7 trillion in outstanding student loan debt. Democrats and the Biden administration saw mass forgiveness as the solution. By contrast, Republicans…

Bard College president to retire following probe into his ties to Epstein

Dive Brief: Bard College’s longtime president, Leon Botstein, will step down at the end of the academic year after an independent investigation concluded he downplayed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein to the campus…

Golders Green attacks: A Muslim was also stabbed - not that you'd know

Golders Green attacks: A Muslim was also stabbed - not that you'd know Submitted by Barry Malone on Mon, 05/04/2026 - 15:26 As it erased Ishmail Hussein from history, the British media again displayed its cowardice,…

Hangzhou: A living painting of lakes, light, and timeless culture

No matter who you are or what kind of traveller you consider yourself to be, Hangzhou has a way of finding a place in your memory that lingers long after you leave. It is one of those rare cities where history does not…

Almost a minute to midnight: Cambridge helps launch open course on nuclear weapons as global tensions rise

An open-source online textbook and course on the current state of nuclear weapons, along with possible futures and global annihilation potential, has been launched by the University’s Centre for the Study of Existential…