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What to know about Linda McMahon, the ECU grad Trump nominated for education secretary
WASHINGTON — Linda McMahon once claimed an unearned education degree from East Carolina University.
Now the New Bern native is nominated to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Education.
Trump announced...Read more
Editorial: Let's not let political chaos distract us from the unfolding climate catastrophe
With so much chaos in the world, from the United States’ slide toward authoritarianism to the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine, you could be forgiven for not being focused on what’s going on this week in Baku, ...Read more
Trump wants to deport millions; Maryland counties are sharply split on whether to help
BALTIMORE — Maryland counties are sharply divided over whether to assist President-elect Donald Trump with what he says will be the largest deportation program in American history.
A Baltimore Sun survey found widely ...Read more
Graduate students explore America’s polarized landscape via train in this course
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.
Crossing the Divide
I developed the idea for this course in 2016 during an Amtrak ...Read more
Americans agree politics is broken − here are 5 ideas for fixing key problems
Now that the elections are over, you might be left feeling exhausted, despondent and disillusioned – whether your preferred candidate won or not. You are not alone.
Survey after survey has found that Americans...Read more
Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants
History is full of examples of governments using forced segregation against ethnic minorities.
From settler colonialists coercing Indigenous peoples into reservations, Nazis forcing Jews into ghettos or the ...Read more
Presidents often claim mandates − especially when they want to expand their power or are on the defensive
Shortly after the 2024 election was called in Donald Trump’s favor, he declared that voters had given him “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”
As the popular vote margin shrinks, however, this claim ...Read more
With Trump as president, can TikTok in the US survive?
The fate of TikTok in the U.S. has been up in the air since 2020, when President Donald Trump moved to ban the popular video app because of national security concerns.
That set off four years of back-and-forth between the...Read more
Cabinetwork
I hadn't done much sanding in my life, but my wife and I bought a new house, and she asked me to sand the kitchen cabinets so she could paint. She likes to paint. I got a handheld electric sander and went to work.
Turns...Read more
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