More than 150 political science professors and scholars have issued a statement urging Congress to circumvent the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation in response to Republican attempts to restrict voter access and overturn election results they don’t like.“This is no ordinary moment in the course of our democracy,” the signees warned in a statement…Continue Reading
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Katy Tur speaks to Civil Rights Professor and veteran of both the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU, Maya Wiley and Civil Rights Attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden about details of closing arguments and jury deliberations in the Arbery shooting trial.Nov.…Continue Reading
Google’s John Mueller has confirmed that a bug prevented Google from crawling for the AMP cache between November 11, 2021 and November 17, 2021. The bug has since been resolved. Google confirmed. “We saw that crawling for the AMP cache had slowed down for some sites,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land, “This bug…Continue Reading
Google’s Discover feed presents mobile users with a stream of content based on the user’s interests. For publications that have managed to get their content featured in it, the Discover feed can drive substantial traffic — but, unfortunately, “there’s no way to create content that explicitly targets Discover’s interest matching,” John Shehata, VP, global audience…Continue Reading
Microsoft Bing Page insights is now live in the Bing search results for search results snippets, the company announced Tuesday. Users will see a lightbulb icon on the right-hand side of the search results that provides more details about the search result. Page insights “provides summarized insights from a page on your search results so…Continue Reading
The latest earnings announcements from Alphabet and Facebook have made it abundantly clear that the consumer privacy movement is creating a competitive advantage for Google. It’s important that businesses understand this reality as Big Tech firms enact tougher privacy controls. Since January 2020, both Apple and Google have made some big moves in the name…Continue Reading
Merrick Garland has done nothing to show himself to be the moderator of partisanship some hoped he might be. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (R) and FBI Director Christopher Wray hold a press conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building on November 08, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) When Merrick Garland…Continue Reading
What the poetic tradition teaches us about the world cannot be replaced by any other discipline. What contemporary American education needs most, and what should replace its racialized and politicized language arts programs, is a poetry-rich curriculum. In a fantastic recent article, Mathew Anderson discussed the importance of teaching poetry in the context of the…Continue Reading
We’ve forgotten John Henry Newman’s warning that without a transcendent telos, education becomes narcissistic and meaningless. John Henry Newman, by Sir John Everett Millais. Wikimedia Commons Much has been made of recent news that about 60 percent of college students are female, “higher education’s dirty little secret,” as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Though…Continue Reading
LGBT advocates say stigma and bigotry are killing transgender Americans. Reality is far more complicated. Is an “epidemic” of violent anti-transgender bigotry raging in the United States? To hear LGBT advocates and their media and political allies tell it, the answer is emphatically yes. Ahead of the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Saturday, the…Continue Reading