The Girls Who Go Away
Child marriage is alive and well among the Yemeni-Americans in Dearborn, but education may finally erode that social norm.
Kaylee McGhee is a conservative commentator and journalist who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2018, covering education policy, social issues, and Republican politics. She wrote about Department of Education matters, transgender policy debates, and GOP primary controversies. She has also been known for her work as a columnist and editorial writer at the Washington Examiner.
Child marriage is alive and well among the Yemeni-Americans in Dearborn, but education may finally erode that social norm.
After months of attempted negotiations, the Department of Education has retracted privileges its union employees once enjoyed, saying the union “acted in bad faith” by refusing to broker an agreement with the agency.
In Secretary Betsy DeVos’s latest deregulatory step, the Department of Education has said it will not investigate or take action on complaints from transgender students regarding the open use of restrooms in public schools.
Arthur Jones, an outspoken white supremacist and Holocaust denier, has unsuccessfully run for public office in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas since the 1970s. But he is now set to win the the Republican primary on March 20 in the race for Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District, his eighth attempt…