From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest
posted 04/05/2024

The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

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Here Come a Trillion Cicadas. The Midwest Is Abuzz.
posted 05/05/2024

Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.

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A Battle Over Beer Split a Texas Town’s Biggest Party
posted 04/05/2024

Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.

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As States Resist Federal Gender Rules, Schools Are Caught in the Middle
posted 04/05/2024

Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students’ gender identity.

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Talk of Escape: Trump’s Possible Return Rattles D.C.
posted 05/05/2024

At Washington dinner parties, dark jokes abound about where to go into exile if the former president reclaims the White House.

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Trump’s Appeal to Latino Evangelicals: One Pastor’s Conversion Story
posted 05/05/2024

Republicans have spent years drawing Latino evangelicals into their fold. At one growing church in the Las Vegas suburbs, Donald J. Trump is reaping the benefits.

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