The subject line was irresistible: “Early Childhood Pushes Up.” The Teachers College Record, a hotbed of radical critique, had delivered another gem to my inbox. Here was a scathing commentary on Obama’s “Cradle-to-Career” education policy. “Wish you hadn’t moved to Australia,” I emailed Jeanne Marie Iorio, a senior lecturer at …
“Just in case you hadn’t seen this,” a friend wrote, passing along the latest piece by Greg Sargent at the Washington Post. “The next big liberal cause,” he called universal child care. “Does it really have a chance?” my friend asked. The multi-billion-dollar question. Sargent’s “next big liberal cause” was …
June 17th was the darkest of nights. A white man slaughtered nine black people during worship. Our nation’s soul is sick, threatened by an ancient malignancy. We continue to search for the words to make sense of it all. Young black men are taking to their posts with anguish and …
I’m the last person to indulge in Monday-morning quarterbacking. I hate football. My proto-hipster father, author of a cult classic, The Hiptionary, referred to America’s national pastime as a “monster jam.” So, no, I didn’t watch the game—although my husband and stepdaughter settled down with their nachos in her new …
