This spring, across the nation’s auditoriums and quadrangles, members of the class of 2026 took their seats to receive remarks from distinguished guests. The graduation speech is a thankless form: generalized, impersonal exhortation/congratulation is almost guaranteed to be forgettable, if al...

Once dismissed, soccer in the U.S. has surged into the mainstream, driven by World Cup moments, MLS growth and fan culture, reshaping how the nation plays, watches and embraces the global game. Show Caption I vividly remember how the American soldiers reacted as we watched the U.S.

I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember being pulled out of my first-grade class and led to the fifth-grade classroom, where a teacher told me to choose a chapter book that was “more at my level.” I...

Authored by Larry Sand via Heartland.org,After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K-12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are th...

The DC Council could look very different in the next term, with races playing out for five seats this election cycle.In Ward 1, five Democratic candidates are working to convince voters they are the most qualified to replace Brianne Nadeau, who is not running for re-election after serving three t...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is one of eight books Celina ISD has removed from its school libraries.  Rick Bowmer/Associated Press Across Texas, school districts are reassessing what books belong on the shelves of school and classroom libraries. At the same time, the State Board of Educatio...

Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Snowflake Summit 2026If the first wave of enterprise artificial intelligence was about compute and foundation models, the next is shaping up to be about the software and data infrastructure needed to make those models useful in real ...

In my writing, and in my idle thoughts, I often return to Arjuna’s lament upon surveying the battlefield of Kurukshetra and finding that he must kill his friends and family. What is his duty in that extraordinary moment? What is my duty, then, in far more ordinary and less harrowing circumsta...

Kate KnibbsThe Big StoryMay 26, 2026 6:00 AMThere’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty Images She introduced herself as Eve, but Ben knew right away that ...