A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said “all lives matter.” In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.
Seventeen long years ago, I urged the creation of “religious charter schools,” either encouraging their start from scratch or—more realistically—allowing extant Catholic and other faith-based schools to convert to charter status without having to forego the religious elements that distinguish them and that many parents crave for their children.
A century ago, on Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified and women were guaranteed the right to vote. While we have achieved much else besides since then, not least in terms of our educational and economic and political opportunities, the fight for gender equality still has a long way to go.
As the start of the school year rushes toward us, millions of teachers across America are girding themselves for their new role as “essential workers” during a persistent pandemic, looking ahead with trepidation to teaching while wearing masks, behind Plexiglas, and to students who will have been out of the classroom for six months or more.
The reduction of trade barriers among the USMCA’s parties will strengthen U.S., Mexican and Canadian supply chains, returning manufacturing jobs to North America from China. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic exposed how North America had become too dependent on China for medical equipment and drugs, Beijing’s campaign of intimidation and censorship was already hurting international companies.
In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into issues related to the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. Durham is a longtime federal prosecutor in Connecticut known for leading organized crime and public corruption cases. In 2008, Attorney General Michael Mukasey tasked Durham with investigating the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes.
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas looked at the data and found that the large majority of new cases are occurring in young people, and young people are at low risk of experiencing any major complications from the virus. Using this research, Dr. Atlas is calling for schools to reopen, since “We know it’s factually true and proven all over the world that people under 18 have very little, if any, risk of a serious illness and essentially no risk of dying from the coronovirus.”
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas talks about why people should not be concerned over the increasing coronavirus infection rate across America. Atlas says we need to be focused more on the hospitalizations and death rates, which he says are decreasing amid an increase in positive cases. Atlas also says the risk of significant illness from seasonal flu is far greater in children than serious illness from Covid-19.
On the privatisation front, Rajan raised a question asking while the government talked about privatisation, why it has not utilised these 4-5 months in preparing the entities which can be privatised.
Our education system is a rousing success — if you want it to produce young people who abhor our traditions. On the other hand, if you think it should educate them about our history and institutions, warts and all, so they can lead lives as productive citizens, it is failing miserably.
In mere months, lockdown measures meant to slow the coronavirus contagion have exposed glaring vulnerabilities throughout global supply chains. One of those supply chains involves millions of international students that keep Western universities financially afloat every year, including here in Canada. Now that scheme is vulnerable.
The U.K. government announced up to $38 billion in fresh stimulus measures intended to boost the country’s economy as it exits lockdown, a path that is also being considered by other rich nations as they seek to prevent the economic shock of the pandemic from snowballing into a multiyear slowdown that could leave deep scars on their societies, businesses and economies.
Many places in the world are still struggling with the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the U.S., some states reopened but then surges in coronavirus cases forced some of them to change their approach in resuming businesses.
