Perhaps the most challenging thing about having written a book about the 1968 presidential election is that every time there is political violence or student protests in America, people compare those events to that ill-fated year — and they are pretty much always wrong. Take, for example, the increasingly omnipresent talk about how the pro-Palestinian anti-war protests roiling American college campuses today bear similarity to those protests 56 years ago opposing the war in Vietnam. Sen. Bernie...
This spring College of the Atlantic students also set up an encampment on the school’s front lawn to protest Israel's actions in Gaza.
Anti-Israel protests regarding the war in Gaza have erupted at college campuses across the country, but polling shows it is not a top issue for most people attending university. A Generation Lab poll shared with Axios shows the war in Gaza ranks at the bottom among top issues for college students. The survey shows only […]
Tanner Meserve, his mother Melissa Meserve, and grandmother Brenda Plummer will make the walk at the University of Southern Maine.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza, using a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust to also denounce new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. []
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza, using a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust to also denounce new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. […]
President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world.”
The 2024 presidential election is expected to be another extremely close contest, with the winner of the Electoral College likely eking out a victory with just tens of thousands of votes across a handful of swing states. But control of the White House could come down to who wins Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District.Bloomberg reported that both Democrats and Republicans are campaigning hard in Douglas County — which includes the Omaha area — in the 2024 cycle. The 2nd district is known as a...
The Russian Ministry of Defence has taken over 17 hectares of the Pirogovsky forest park in the Mytishchi urban district of the Moscow Region to extend the "Pantheon of Defenders of the Fatherland" military cemetery, as reported by Novaya Gazeta Europe. The Mytishchi town administration had previously confirmed the Defence Ministry's plans to expand Russia's largest military cemetery. In February, a local group on the social network VKontakte posted a statement by the head of the district, Yulia...
The dad from Maine scooped the fourth-biggest lottery win in US history when he hit the Mega Millions jackpot in January last year. Now he is embroiled in a vicious dispute with his ex-partner and his own father as he fights to keep his name secret
The chain link fences are up, bag searches in place and metal detectors installed. At many universities across the country, graduation for the Class of 2024 will feel more like making it through airport security than a procession through a free-flowing campus green or a cheering stadium crowd. The drastic changes arrive as universities grapple with pro-Palestinian tent camps — the scenes of recent mass arrests and turmoil — during a volatile time of campus divisions over the Israel-Hamas war....
For next week's Watch & Wonder Highlight, we're featuring the film "Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War." After watching, dive deeper with resources about one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history through the testimony of witnesses from all sides of the conflict on PBS LearningMedia.