This fall, students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be able to major in Civic and Constitutional Thought. Approved in July by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the UT Board of Trustees, the degree is the first academic degree program offered through UT’s Institute of American Civics. Tennessee deserves credit for treating civic […]
This is the story of Nazra Ahmed’s experience during Operation Metro Surge. She’s a home care worker and member of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa. As told to Phillip Cryan, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa executive vice president. When Operation Metro Surge first happened, I was talking with my family: “How are we going to […]
A federal courtroom in Concord has once again become the center of a national argument over who is an American citizen. On Aug. 11, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups asked the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to block President Donald Trump’s latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. The filing came just […]
It’s hard not to get caught up in the increasingly contentious Democratic primary battle that’s mostly being waged online this week. But outside of the social media echo chambers, people who are taking the brunt of a vicious, authoritarian regime are asking deeper questions about how to build political power. Union and immigrant-rights organizers in […]
More than a century ago, our state confronted a difficult question: Who should government ultimately answer to, its citizens or concentrated wealth?
MONTANA — Montana's driver license and ID fee waiver has been extended through September, giving more residents a chance to add the new black eagle-in-flight citizenship marker to their credentials at little to no cost, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced in a release.
(The Center Square) – The Center for Immigration Studies held a panel discussion Tuesday discussing the impacts of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Trump v. Barbara birthright citizenship case, how America’s citizenship requirements compare to France, Israel and Hungary, including birthright citizenship practices.
When I return home for the Kansas Book Festival in Topeka, I will do what I have done at talks across the country: brag on Kansas. I will be there to talk about “How to Raise a Citizen (and Why It’s Up to You to Do It)” alongside state Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Rosen and Mr. […]
Scholarly surveys, discussions and polls have consistently revealed a clear consensus: the leadership capacity of the founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison — is unrivaled by any subsequent coterie of American statesman. It is true that these same academic conversations reflect agreement that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand atop the list of America’s greatest presidents, with founding chief executives such as Washington and Jefferson closely on their heels, but there is, it seems, no generation of political leaders across 250 years that is comparable to those who launched the American Revolution, drafted the Declaration of Independence and wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
SHREVEPORT, La. — Top middle school students from across the state will gather in Shreveport this weekend to test their knowledge of American government and community leadership.
