The Department of Justice launched an effort to discourage threats against school administrators in early October, citing a “disturbing spike” in harassment and intimidation. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the move in a memo as parents nationwide push back against school districts over mask policies, vaccine requirements and lessons on what they call “critical race…

Does critical race theory have a place in your child’s academic curriculum? Political Analyst and Straight Arrow News Contributor Rashad Richey says calls to ban it in the classroom are irrelevant and miss the mark about what it actually teaches.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Top Pentagon leaders on Wednesday passionately defended the military’s approach to addressing racism and extremism, pushing back against accusations by Republican lawmakers that the effort is creating division and hurting morale. The testy exchanges showed that the political dimension of a national debate over racism and extremism weighs on the military even…