Reuters

Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration; revises outlook to 'stable'

Oct 24 (Reuters) - European rating agency Scope downgraded the United States' credit rating by a notch on Friday, citing sustained deterioration in public finances and a weakening of governance ...
Investopedia

Project Scope vs. Product Scope: Understanding Key Differences

Mitchell Grant is a self-taught investor with over 5 years of experience as a financial trader. He is a financial content strategist and creative content editor. Investopedia / Yurle Villegas Scope, a ...
America Magazine

100 years after the Scopes Monkey Trial: religion, science and the era of eugenic racism

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial. On July 21, 1925, a jury in Dayton, Tenn., convicted John Scopes, a high school science teacher, of violating the state’s Butler Act, which ...
WBUR

Reflecting on the Scopes trial, 100 years later

The cover of "The Hundred Years' Trial" and author Harold Gouzoules (top) and Alexander Gouzoules (bottom). (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press, Emory University and Samantha Xia) One hundred ...
Tennessean

Trial of the century: Why 100 years later, the Scopes case still matters

DAYTON, TN – Inside a sweltering courtroom in July, a fierce debate was underway here in this small Tennessee town. Modern science versus religion and the battle over what is taught inside America’s ...
USA Today

100 years after the Scopes trial, Americans are still divided over what kids should learn

In July 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee played host to one of the most high-profile trials of its day. It became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, and it pitted science versus religion in ...
National Catholic Register

Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later

“When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, / the moon and stars that you set in place — / What is man that you are mindful of him, / and a son of man that you care for him?/ Yet you have made ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later

One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began. It concluded 11 days later with a conviction. Today, this battle in the conflict over religion and science in United States ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom

O n July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of teaching Darwinian theory. He’d violated the newly passed Butler Act, ...
The Christian Century

The Scopes Monkey Trial and the evolution of fundamentalism

On July 10, 1925, the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely epicenter of a clash that reverberated through US history for a century. The trial of John T. Scopes, a young high school ...
Christian Science Monitor

Remembering Scopes: How 100-year-old ‘Monkey Trial’ helped shape evangelical Christianity

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Mental Floss

10 Surprising Facts About the Scopes Monkey Trial

How a 24-year-old Tennessee teacher, a Bible-thumping prosecutor, and a chimpanzee found themselves at the center of the nation’s most contentious trial a century ago. The State of Tennessee v. John T ...