We’ve made progress in many realms of civil rights over the past decades in the U.S. The rights of African Americans, women, gays and lesbians, and handicapped people have expanded, thanks in part to ...

Last month, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing on what many consider to be an unfolding mental health crisis among teens. Two of the witnesses were parents ...

A year after Arkansas' Educational Freedom Account program opened to every student, the effort remains a lightning rod for ...

Laura Groenjes Mitchell is more than an avid cyclist. She’s been biking daily for 15 years; she’s a certified biking instructor; she founded the Minneapolis Cargo Bike Library, allowing local families ...

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and ...

An interfaith panel at the 2025 Forum on Faith, held in New York City in October, commemorated the hundred-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court case Pierce v. Society of Sisters that established ...

The other category of decline in children’s freedom has to do with increased regulation outside of school. In the 1920s and ‘30s when my parents were kids, in the 1950s when I was a kid, and even in ...