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Editorial Memorandum: Key Education Proposals in the Wisconsin Legislature

In a memorandum to Wisconsin press, PFAW offers insights on education proposals dealing with class size issues and private-school vouchers. Read More
Evolution and Creationism in Public Education

For decades, there has been an ongoing debate in the United States regarding how public schools can best teach about the origins and development of human beings. Teaching scientific theories on this topic without challenging the religious beliefs of many Americans is no simple task. Recently, this debate has intensified… Read More
Charles Pickering’s Record On Civil Rights, Other Key Issues Calls For Rejection By Senate Judiciary Committee

Nominee’s record both before and after becoming a federal judge has generated widespread opposition to his elevation to U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Read More
Teaching Fear: The Religious Right’s Campaign Against Sexuality Education

I. Introduction Sexuality education has been one of the primary sources of controversy in the public schools for almost thirty years. The debate over this issue is particularly heated now, in a time when teen pregnancy rates are persistently high and the HIV/AIDS epidemic is having… Read More
Judicial Nominee Steven Menashi Has a Record Steeped in Opposition to the Rights and Dignity of Others

On September 9, President Trump nominated Steven Menashi to be a U.S. federal judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Menashi's hearing on September 11 and has scheduled his committee vote for October 24. People For the American Way wrote to senators to express our opposition to the Menashi nomination. Read More
America’s Cabinet: Chris Larson

Administrator of the Small Business Administration State Senator Milwaukee, WI After defeating an incumbent from his own party during the 2010 fall primary, Larson was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate at the age of 29. Larson bravely left the state in February 2011 to stand up for… Read More
Sessions: Tell the Truth About Your Project to Attack Campus Diversity Efforts

This piece was originally published on HuffPost. Earlier this week it was widely reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was planning “a new project… Read More
National School Choice Week: PR for Privatizers?

On Wednesday morning, a roomful of school children were herded into a congressional meeting room and required to sit through an hour and a half worth of speeches by conservative Members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner, Sens. Ted Cruz and Tim Scott, Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Patrick McHenry,… Read More
Defending the Freedom to Learn: Temecula and the #RecallAll3 Movement

The far right has launched a national campaign to take over our school boards and dictate what our kids can and can't learn. And we're seeing it play out right now in Temecula, California. We sat down with People For Field Director Alana Byrd and Research Director Peter Montgomery to talk about what's happening in Temecula and across the country. Read More
Another Dangerous Term Begins at the Supreme Court

Introduction Because of the far-right extremists on the Court, we have lost our constitutional right to abortion care. Millions of us have been saddled with crushing student debt. We have lost the benefits of affirmative action in higher education. We’ve lost environmental protections for wetlands. Laws protecting us… Read More
Will Alabama, Right-Wing Dark Money, and the Supreme Court Deliver the Dobbs of Voting Rights?

The right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly weakened voting rights protections in the 10 years since it gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act in the notorious Shelby County v. Holder opinion. That opinion opened the door to state legislators—many in the old Confederate states—who… Read More
Fact Sheets: Beneficial Decisions by Biden-Nominated Judges

Introduction People For the American Way has created eight fact sheets on important, beneficial decisions involving federal judges nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate. In many of these decisions, Biden judges have reversed bad rulings by Trump trial court judges or ensured… Read More
Grandparents For Truth Stands with Trans Kids in Temecula Schools Against Forced Outing by School Officials

Extremist Temecula Valley school board members–whom we’ve written about previously for their attempts to deny students social studies textbooks simply because they contained LGBTQ content, and who are facing a recall effort due to their radical ideologies–are at… Read More
Hope for Our Courts: The Impact of Biden Judges

Introduction As the right-wing Supreme Court majority’s latest rulings create severe harm and injustice on issues ranging from student loans to affirmative action to LGBTQ+ rights, is there any hope for justice in our federal court system? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Because the Supreme Court hears… Read More
Supreme Court’s Latest Devastating Term Underscores Need to Fill All Judicial Seats

Washington D.C. – The Supreme Court’s latest term, in which far-right justices dealt devastating blows to affirmative action, LGBTQ+ rights, and the economic futures of millions of student borrowers, underscores the need to stem the tide of harm by confirming more fair-minded judges to lower courts, according to a new… Read More
Turning Back the Clock: How the Supreme Court’s 2022-23 Term Upends Decades of Progress

During the 2022-23 Supreme Court term ending in June, the far-right majority continued their mission to change our country to benefit the wealthy and powerful, at the expense of our fundamental rights. They ended affirmative action in higher education, created a constitutional right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, struck… Read More
Far-Right Justices Strike Down Universities’ Affirmative Action Programs

KBJ's dissent calls out the majority's "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness" about race in America. Read More
The Continuing Harm and Danger Posed by Trump Lower Court Judges

It’s been almost three years since Donald Trump put any new judges on our federal courts. But the 234 judges he and Senate Republicans rushed onto the federal bench will remain there for life. They will continue to… Read More
Why the Banning of Queer Books is Doomed to Fail

It’s Pride Month, and while we’ve made incredible progress over the years, we’re still, unfortunately, fighting some of the same old battles. Far Right authoritarians are still out there acting like any information about queer people is “indoctrination” or, now, “grooming.” So, they’re attempting to… Read More
How to Spot the Truth in a Sea of Disinformation

At People For, standing up for truth is our mission, and that mission has gotten increasingly difficult lately. With seemingly constant attacks on the truth from the Far Right, whether it’s teaching truth in schools or expecting our political leaders to speak the truth at the podium, standing… Read More