The head of the Australian television network, Channel 10, has discouraged staff from celebrating Jan. 26 as Australia Day, arguing the date marks the beginning of a “turbulent history” for Indigenous people, according to an internal note. Channel 10 is one of five national free-to-air networks and is part of Paramount Australia and New Zealand…

A gunman shot at least 10 people Tuesday morning on a New York subway train. A manhunt is underway. President Joe Biden announced a new plan to lower gas prices, as inflation hits a fresh four-decade high. What will the new policy do, and can it fix the problem? What do the new inflation numbers really…

The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at banning the teaching of any “divisive concept” to school students. The bill, HB 312, was passed mostly along party lines 65–32, and now moves to the Alabama Senate. HB 312 defines a “divisive concept” as including any ideology that teaches (a) a race, religion,…

Commentary As defined by Encyclopedia Britannica: “Critical Race Theory (CRT), is an intellectual movement and loosely-organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. “Critical race theorists hold that the…