The Dean of Faculty at the Poynter Institute argues that, while it is not necessarily a bad thing to cover racial issues, the media has been doing so improperly this election season.
Articles By: Bethany Stotts
Denial Healthy? Not Necessarily
Five academics have challenged the conventional wisdom that silence in the face of emotional trauma is unhealthy.
Put On Your Happy Face
Less than one quarter of high school graduates who took the ACT have a 50% probability of getting a B in four college-level subjects, and many students are taking remedial courses in college.
ConWeb Artists
At the left-wing blog, ConWebWatch, dedicated to “monitoring” conservative news websites, Terry Krepel has doggedly been criticizing Accuracy in Media.
CUFI on Campus
Pastor John Hagee, founder of the pro-Israel lobbying group, Christians United For Israel, expressed his own concern about the obstacles facing pro-Israel students on campus at this year’s CUFI summit.
Freudian Falloff
Are Freudian analyses of the human mind becoming a thing of the past? A new study released this month finds that psychiatric practices are increasingly opting for medical therapies over the traditional “couch talks” that once symbolized this mental health profession.
Good Money After Bad
When gas prices are at record highs and American families are feeling the economic pinch, Congress may just decide to boost gas prices even higher. Their reason will be to save jobs.
Historical Progress?
Despite what Americans have been hearing about the nation’s poor civics literacy, renowned education reformer Diane Ravitch suggests that, on historical subjects at least, civics education may have made “some headway.”
NEA Family Feud
It’s that time again. The National Education Association teacher’s union met in Washington, D.C. over July 4th week for its annual convention and to endorse Barack Obama for president.
Gadfly or Watchdog?
Surprisingly, my recent article on the subject raised complaints not from Dr. Schatzberg, but from Dr. Bernard Carroll and UCLA Professor Dr. Robert Rubin—two doctors who confronted Dr. Schatzberg for his shoddy science and conflicts-of-interest in 2004.