How Much Faith Do You Have in the U.S. Political System?
Imagine if you were a foreign leader surveying the political chaos in the United States:For the first time in history, a party has just fired its own speaker of the House in the middle of a term.In the Senate, one of the two party leaders, who’s 81 years old, has twice recently frozen in public,…
Do You Think You Live in a Political Bubble?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.America is increasingly politically polarized. How politically diverse do you think your neighborhood is? Do you think your neighbors are mostly Democrats or Republicans? Do you think you live in a partisan bubble?In “Do You Live in…
Should Facebook Fact-Check Political Speech?
Find all our Student Opinion questions here. In a speech at Georgetown University on Oct. 17, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, defended a sweeping policy the company unveiled last month around political speech on the site. The Times reports: In it, the company said it would not moderate politicians’ speech or fact-check their political ads…
