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Kountze High School cheerleaders paint a banner before a football game.

Texas cheerleaders’ free speech battle heads into overtime

Religious Liberty |  Just when a group of Texas high school cheerleaders thought their fight for free speech was over, their school district has decided to go on offense. Kountze…

Fred Phelps Jr., of Topeka, Kansas., with the Westboro Baptist Church holds a sign in front of the Supreme Court in Washington.

Signs and Wonders: Hacker gives Westboro a taste of its own protest

Newsworthy |  Hactivist hates Phelps. Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for seeking publicity in the wake of national tragedies, which it often says are punishments from…

Fight over commencement prayers never graduates

Fight over commencement prayers never graduates

Religious Liberty |  As the school year reaches an end, the warm summer afternoons are filled with students walking onstage to pick up their diplomas, and the nightly news is…

Attorney Gloria Allred is shown speaking with students and alumni who allege Occidental College administrators violated federal standards for dealing with their rape, sexual assault or retaliation claims.

Obama administration proclaims right not to be offended on campus

Free Speech |  Colleges and universities across the country could soon be forced to adopt a definition of “sexual harassment” so broad critics say it leaves almost every…

President Obama speaks at Morehouse College's commencement Sunday.

President Obama's inspirational speech

Culture |  President Obama gave two commencement addresses in one to graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend. It would be easy for this conservative…

Josh Radnor at the <i>Liberal Arts</i> premiere in New York last September.

A movie that’s one for the books

Movies |  This week I’d like to step back from Washington scandals and abortion trials to give a salute to college graduates. While too many have received a…

No matter what, keep learning

No matter what, keep learning

Education |  As I’ve alluded to before, my 8-year-old, Cooper, went to school this year for the first time and had the rudest awakening of his life. Apparently, although…

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Campbellsville outcast

Religion |  Southern Baptist school’s dismissal of conservative outrages Southern Baptist leaders

Knechtle at UT-Austin in 2010.
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Real commencement

Education |  Campus stalwart has spent decades helping students see beyond the shadowlands

Superintendent John Deasy

Suspension policy thrown out of L.A. schools

Education |  Los Angeles public schools banned suspensions for misbehaving students on Tuesday, becoming the first district in the state to do so. Instead of being sent…

Chelsea Kolz speaking at her college commencement Saturday.

Beginning the life-after-college story

Essay |  On Saturday I spoke at my college commencement, wearing these snakeskin heels that reminded me of the foot bindings that slowly broke the bones in the feet of…

Private college ‘tuition discount’ hits record high

Private college ‘tuition discount’ hits record high

Education |  As worries about college costs rise, schools are forced to increase financial aid or face declining enrollment

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