Banning the Banning of Books: Illinois and California lead the way.
In June, at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation banning book bans in Illinois public libraries. This legislation, initiated by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, passed the Illinois House and Senate in March by...
50 Years After: Panel on the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government by the CIA in September 1973
Friday 27 October 2023 at 6:00 pm at HAYMARKET HOUSE 800 W BUENA AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60613 FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Fifty years ago on September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, Richard Nixon and the CIA executed a coup d’état against the...
Social Media Use, Mental Health Literacy, and Related Problems Among LGBTQ+ Youth
Depression levels in the United States have risen steadily over the past five decades, and steep increases have been observed in recent years among children, adolescents, and adults under 25 years of age. Among them, youths aged 12–17 are experiencing the fastest rise...
U.S. Higher Education under Siege: Freedom of Inquiry and Speech at Risk
The Covid pandemic threw a harsh spotlight on higher education in America, exposing forces eating away at the foundations of college and university learning, calling into question the traditional purposes of such education in our post-modern, high-tech society. The...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and the Writers/Actors Strike: Why You Should Care
The two primary issues in the Writers Guild and SAG/AFTRA strikes are streaming and artificial intelligence. In my judgement, the AI issue, in the long term, is the fundamental issue. But, let me begin with streaming. STREAMING. In the 1950s, Screen Actors Guild (SAG)...
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