Can You Pass a U.S. Citizenship Test? 41% Don’t Know Independence Day’s Meaning
By Chris Melore More than one in three Americans don’t know the true meaning of Independence Day. That’s according to a new OnePoll survey that…
Culture
Never Forget How Covid Controls Corrupted Independence Day
By James Bovard America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors. For a couple…
Frederick Douglass on The Fourth of July
By Neenah Payne Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) has a special meaning for me because his family had the foresight in the 19th century to found Highland…
How Muslims Inspired The European Renaissance
By Neenah Payne It would be hard to overstate the importance of the role of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in bringing Europe out…
SUNDAY SCREENING: Black Holes of Yamal (2021)
By 21st Century Wire Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. When giant holes began appearing in the Arctic tundra, Nenets…
One Half of a Manifesto: The Rise of Artificial Stupidity?
By Aaron Dykes Lots of people talk about how this new tech is going to outsmart us all, but hardly anyone connected to it discusses…
The Australian Gulag Archipelago
By Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster and Michael Baker John Stapleton, a celebrated retired Australian journalist, despairs about Australia. Starting in 2015 he has written increasingly…
Suddenly, ChatGPT Agrees That 50-year-old White Men Can Be “Inspiring”
By Hamish Carter Stockton Rush, the now-deceased CEO of (the probably soon-to-be-defunct) OceanGate, once said that he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain…
The Devastating Lives of Afghani Women Under Taliban Rule
By Emily Thompson Hibatullah Akhundzada, Taliban’s supreme leader, says women’s lives in Afghanistan have been “bettered” by his rule as the United Nations sounds alarms…
Reading, Math Skills Plummeting Among American Children
By Spencer Dalke A recent report from the National Assessment for Educational Progress shows American reading and math acuity for 13-year-olds is at its lowest…
Facing the Stigma of a White Author Writing About Indigenous People
By John C.A. Manley There is a bit of a stigma in the writing community about authors who are not Indigenous writing about Indigenous people….
Elisabeth Hoekstra’s Remarkable Story
By Neenah Payne Elisabeth Hoekstra, is a successful entrepreneur of Korean descent from Detroit, Michigan. She is an inspiration to many today despite experiencing a…
How Moxie the Robot Uses GPT AI to Data-Mine Your Kids’ Socioemotional-Learning Algorithms
By John Klyczek In this video, I break down the privacy policy for a new socioemotional-learning (SEL) robot called Moxie. I detail how Moxie utilizes…
How King Cotton Fueled Industrial Revolution
By Neenah Payne The Muslim Agricultural Revolution points out that Arabs introduced cotton to Europe — and thus to America. The Turbulent Reign of King…