Kyle Mackie

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Kyle Gallego-Mackie |Kyle Mackie |Taylor Haney |Leila Fadel

Updated April 15, 2025 at 05:02 AM ETTara McKay was home on the last night in February when she received an email that made her doubt — if only for a moment — the worthiness of her career. It was a message from a branch of the National Institutes of Health: Funding for a research project she leads at Vanderbilt University's LGBTQ+ Policy Lab had been terminated because it involved transgender issues.

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Taylor Haney |Kyle Gallego-Mackie |Kyle Mackie |Arezou Rezvani

Updated April 14, 2025 at 18:00 PM ETBeing openly conservative at a liberal university comes with certain hazards, according to Miguel Muniz and Martin Bertao. They are the incoming and outgoing presidents of the University of California Berkeley College Republicans and say they face harassment whenever they set up a table on campus. "We're called fascist. We're yelled at. We're spit at," Muniz says, adding that verbal attacks are a constant.

1 month ago | mprnews.org | Leila Fadel |Arezou Rezvani |Taylor Haney |Kyle Mackie

For years, Sarah Inama had a poster hanging in her Idaho classroom that encouraged her 6th grade students to be kind and inclusive with one another. "Everyone is Welcome Here," it read in bright multi-colored letters atop a row of hands with varying skin tones. The poster had never drawn any attention, until recently, when her principal and vice principal asked her to take it down.

1 month ago | mprnews.org | Leila Fadel |Arezou Rezvani |Taylor Haney |Kyle Mackie

Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading. NPR's Morning Edition has talked to legal experts, activists, immigration lawyers, scientists, students, teachers and others over several weeks to understand why.

Mar 12, 2024 | 891khol.org | Kyle Mackie

by | Mar 12, 2024 | Elections, Politics & Policy, Teton Valley Idaho switched to caucuses this year to help determine the 2024 presidential nominees after a legislative mistake removed the Gem State’s presidential primary date last year. Just 2% of Teton County’s eligible registered Republicans voted in the GOP contest.