Laurel Duggan

Nearly one third of English secondary schools and academies are teaching about toxic masculinity in mandatory Relationships or Health Education (RSHE) courses, according to a new report from the Family Education Trust. Toxic masculinity has multiple contrasting definitions, and its use in educational settings is not uniform. But in some English schools, the most inflammatory [...]Read More...

Momodou Taal, a graduate student at Cornell University, has been suspended for the second time for his role in anti-Israel campus protests, and may now have to leave the US or face deportation. The move marks an inflection point as elite American colleges begin penalising disruptive and rule-breaking protests. Last week, protesters targeted a campus [...]Read More...

A federal judge this week ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride levels in drinking water to minimise the risk posed to children’s health. It marks a turning point in the fight over public water fluoridation, the potential harms of which have long been dismissed. Water fluoridation began in the US in the [...]Read More...

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, one of the top public schools in the US, has seen a major decline in academic achievement since implementing new admissions standards in pursuit of racial equity in 2020. In the days after George Floyd’s death, leaders began assessing the underrepresentation of black and Hispanic students at [...]Read More...

Kamala Harris called for the legalisation of marijuana on a Monday appearance on the All the Smoke podcast. “We need to legalise it and stop criminalising this behaviour,” she said. “This is not a new position for me. I have felt for a long time we need to legalise it”. Harris had previously endorsed legalisation [...]Read More...

Future Coalition PAC, a Republican-led super PAC funded in part by Elon Musk, has been running conflicting adverts targeting Arab and Jewish voters. In Pennsylvania, the PAC published an ad portraying Kamala Harris as unsupportive of Israel and sympathetic to anti-Israel protesters, saying: “Jewish voters must say, ‘No more.’” But in Michigan, the Future Coalition [...]Read More...

In the closing weeks of the presidential election, Democrats and their allies are promoting pornography access in an attempt to court young male voters. The Freedom to Watch PAC boasted this week of reaching 5 million swing-state viewers through ads on porn websites. “The campaign specifically targets young, non-college-educated white males, a demographic that has [...]Read More...

La migration des Américains vers la Californie a atteint un niveau historiquement bas en 2023, selon de nouvelles données du recensement. La Californie a été classée dernière aux États-Unis pour l’afflux d’Américains d’autres États par rapport à sa population l’année dernière, avec 422 000 personnes s’y déplaçant depuis d’autres États. En tant qu’État le plus [...]Lire la suite...

Les médias traditionnels libéraux tentent de se repositionner au centre politique face à une confiance publique en déclin, des audiences en réduction et des marges de profit qui se resserrent. Hier, le Los Angeles Times a annoncé qu’il formait un nouveau conseil éditorial dans le but de regagner la confiance. « Alors que le Président [...]Lire la suite...

Liberal legacy media outlets are attempting to pivot to the political centre amid declining public trust, shrinking audiences, and tightening margins. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times announced that it is forming a new editorial board in an effort to win back trust. “When the President has won the vote of the majority of Americans then [...]Read More...