The pledge of allegiance is a relic from an America drastically more archaic and complacent than the one we live in today.

A 14-year-old American citizen of Palestinian descent has alleged a teacher at her Michigan school told her she should “go back to your country” for her political protest. The school district said it ...

Ironically, the Pledge of Allegiance, which today is most fiercely defended by white conservative Southerners whose Confederate ancestors tried to destroy the United States in the 1860s, ...

Seventy one years ago – December 22, 1942 – Congress got the United States out of what had turned into an unexpectedly embarrassing situation. It concerned the Pledge of Allegiance ...

A Palestinian American student in Michigan is suing a middle school teacher and school district, claiming the educator ...

Before swearing in the senators of the 119th Congress, Harris led the pledge and accidentally mixed up its famous opening words, "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America ...

Unfortunately, Barnwell’s experience is far from unique. It’s just the latest chapter in the long controversial history of the Pledge of Allegiance, a 31-word exercise in performative ...

1. I’m neither a strong supporter of schools’ leading students in the Pledge of Allegiance nor a strong opponent. It is indeed an attempt at a particular form of ideological indoctrination ...

The Pledge of Allegiance is an act of performative patriotism rooted in nativism and bigotry. After 9/11, many more states began mandating it in schools. Skip to main content.

Lexington School District 1 has responded to River Bluff High School student Marissa Barnwell's lawsuit about saying the Pledge of Allegiance at school, citing surveillance video.

For well over a century, the Pledge of Allegiance has been a pillar of America’s national identity. New evidence has emerged, though, to indicate that perhaps the man who pledged that he ...

Seventy one years ago – December 22, 1942 – Congress got the United States out of what had turned into an unexpectedly embarrassing situation. It concerned the Pledge of Allegiance ...