All posts tagged "Theoreticalanalysis"

When teacher Mary Wood stepped back into the classroom this semester, she didn’t just have the usual back-to-school jitters. This wasn’t the veteran teacher’s first time starting a new English class, but it was the first since her lesson plan for last year put her in the center of a very public spat about how race is taught in South Carolina classrooms. It was a discussion that she at times welcomed and at others worried how it was affecting her standing both professionally and in her community at large. “Starting school was weird,” Wood said in an interview at her Chapin, South Carolina, home......

The charges are piling up against former President Donald Trump — and his legal calendar is getting as crowded as the Republican primary schedule. Trump was hit Thursday with a superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago documents case even as his lawyers were told to expect another indictment in an unrelated probe into his alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election. And Georgia prosecutors have suggested he could face an indictment anytime after Monday in an alleged parallel scheme to reverse his loss to President Biden in the battleground Peach State. Federal and state judges hearing Trump’s ca......

Amid the growing acceptance and legalization of cannabis use across the country, a concerning reality has emerged: The state-by-state patchwork of safety regulations can leave marijuana consumers wandering through a haze of uncertainty, exposing them to potential risks. Under federal law, marijuana is illegal — period. So, it’s up to individual states to determine their own regulations and safety standards. Those inconsistent regulations are part of a broad debate about the U.S. cannabis industry. The 47 states that allow at least some cannabis use (cannabis is still illegal in Idaho, Kansas a......

ORLANDO, Fla. — In January 2021, Gov. Ron DeSantis was proud to announce the one-millionth COVID-19 vaccine given out in Florida. “We did it live on TV,” DeSantis told a Newsmax town hall four months later. “And I had a 100-year-old WWII veteran, they showed [his] shot, we were all clapping. They were interviewing him, and he just unilaterally said, ‘I want to say one more thing … Florida has the best doggone governor in this country.’ And I was like, ‘Hey, I’ll take that.’” Back then, DeSantis often praised the state’s coordination with the Trump administration, which was partly responsible f......

CHICAGO — The new podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin” takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Bridgeport neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in Chicago's Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19. Clark was beaten unconscious and suffered permanent brain damage, and the longest sentence handed out was eight years to Frank Caruso Jr., with two others receiving probation. The seven-part series by the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalis......

PEORIA, Ill. — Ahead of the expected launch of a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned a central Illinois audience of GOP faithful Friday night that if President Joe Biden is reelected and other Democrats also win office, “the country is going to be unrecognizable.” In a speech of about 40 minutes inside an airy ballroom at the Peoria Civic Center, DeSantis blamed Democrats for “obliterating communities throughout this country,” including Chicago, while promoting his own policies in the areas including education and criminal justice that are mean......