When I texted my 12-year-old niece to ask what the cool kids want when they head back to school, approximately one millisecond elapsed before her three dots popped up, indicating a speedy response on its way. “Everyone wants an Owala,” she declared, and I read it in Miranda Priestley’s “oh, you sweet summer child” tone...
Phynart Studio/E+/Getty Images We’re halfway through July — depending on where you live, there may be just a few weeks left until school starts again. And for roughly half of American parents, that’s enough to make them wince. From new clothes and shoes to notebooks, pens, a backpack, and possibly a crazy expensive calculator, back-to-school...
Pool/Getty Images News/Getty Images This week, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume the gutting of the U.S. Department of Education. This dismantling goes hand in hand with his larger plan to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more control by the states, a...
Rebecca Noble/Getty Images News/Getty Images Right-wing activist and red-pilling media personality, Charlie Kirk, encouraged young girls to go to college, but not because he wants them to become self-sufficient, intelligent members of the world. Nope! He chose a much more archaic and cringeworthy motive for why young women should attend universities. Speaking at the Turning...