Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor just shared, in a panel discussion along with Justice Neil Gorsuch, that in the USA, we spend $54 per student on STEM courses, and only $.05 on Civics education. #sschat @SocialStudiesMN @NCSSNetwork @CivXNow

Truman was right, as usual, and nothing has changed about Russia. What has changed is the American president and his business partners saying they trust Russia's dictator.

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Karl-Anthony Towns finished the Knicks' championship run with a playoff plus/minus of 258, which is the best in NBA history since that's been tracked. KAT broke Steph Curry's record of 244 in 2016-2017.

What were the factors that shaped U.S. foreign policy in the country’s early years of existence? In this new collection of resources, students analyze the Jay Treaty debate through a historic overview, primary source documents, and a discussion activity: on.cfr.org/3Pb6wqs

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Karl-Anthony Towns getting a ring before Jimmy Butler brings me great joy. Congrats KAT.

In 2024, almost 5.5 billion people used the internet worldwide, which represents 68 percent of the world's population—up from just 15 percent in 2005. Use this multimedia resource to teach your students about the internet and its reach around the globe: bit.ly/4uOaaWP

The #Vikings plan to name Andrew Healy and Trent Kirchner as assistant GMs, adding two highly respected executives to the club’s football operation. Healy, who will serve as the team’s secondary football executive, while Kirchner is widely regarded as one of the NFL’s top talent evaluators.

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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Mark America’s 250th anniversary with new videos from our friends at @RetroReport 📜 Revisit the Revolutionary era and the creation of the Constitution through the eyes of historians, primary source documents and the words of people who lived through it. retroreport.org/america-250-…

This play will be replayed for years.

Every Scottish person in America needs to immediately try Chicken Fried Steak, and you’ll realise we and the Americans are kindred spirits

Further evidence of Beijing's ongoing repression is the continued long-term imprisonment of many Uyghurs, including @RushanAbbas's sister. The police witness confirmed that large Uyghur population shares remain imprisoned.

Mourning the death of Gordon Wood, our greatest American historian. Gordon chaired the Distinguished Scholars Advisory Board at the opening of @ConstitutionCtr in 2004 and was a generous friend, advisor, and inspiring role model ever since. Combing intellectual, political, and constitutional history, he transformed our understanding of the Radicalism of the American Revolution and the Creation of the American Republic. Thanks to an extraordinary teacher, scholar, and champion of the liberal arts for inspiring so many of us to love history, the Constitution, and the American Idea. reason.com/volokh/2026/06/08… via @reason

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

Attention all history teachers! Highlight America's 250th for your students with key events from the nation's founding to the present, alongside five in-depth collections that single out pivotal moments in American foreign policy for deeper engagement: on.cfr.org/3PgGKRw