County Councillors have voted for the 'lesser of two evils' option of merging with the district authorities rather than an ...

A well-informed citizenry is the backbone of a healthy democracy,” writes Lindsey Cormack in her 2024 book How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It). She contends that raising engaged ...

Long before the birth of the United States, Native nations were leading through councils, consensus, and community. Their ideas of representation and shared power influenced how early Americans ...

Copland Rudolph is the executive director of Asheville City Schools Foundation (ACSF), an education nonprofit dedicated to helping students thrive. Xpress: What is your organization’s most urgent need ...

Students at the John Lewis Social Justice Academy in Dallas ISD meet in the school’s chambers to debate aspects of democracy.

Readers also comment on masked ICE agents, shutdown politics, vaccine safety, demolition of the East Wing, No Kings protests, health care and more.

An NPR series this week looks at why people are having fewer children and the impact. It’s called Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World.

A new UCLA study reveals that breast milk from women living with HIV contains significantly lower levels of tryptophan, an essential amino acid likely important for infant immune function, growth, and ...

What happened to the kids in ‘Weapons’? Throughout the film, we see the children from Justine’s classroom leave their homes at 2:17 a.m. in the exact same manner — running with their arms outstretched ...

A year-long Spotlight on Maryland investigation into the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund has uncovered gaps in transparency, raising questions about how a nonprofit sustained almost entirely by city ...