As an American who has heard about thousands of shootings by now, I have never been asked about how I felt about any particular shooting — until a few days after the sho...
Most people know about anti-Semitism. Still, efforts to define anti-Semitism and the tropes that perpetuate it continue to be given insufficient weight.
Case in point, t...
A year after COVID-19 ravaged New York City, infections there are creeping up again and in other hot spots across the country, despite the largest vaccination push ever....
Study shows a bad-news bias for COVID-19
Back in September, I wrote about how, in the midst of the pandemic, there was a lot of good news that wasn’t getting much coverag...
It's become a set piece in certain precincts of social media: complaints that people are getting vaccinated under false pretenses.
In a recent issue of Airmail, the posh...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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Vice President Kamala Harris disrespected the military when she f...
Rethinking how teachers teach civics and how students learn about democracy has never been more crucial.
Schools can be more than settings for teaching and learning abou...
As he takes office this month, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is facing no shortage of challenges and controversies. Perhaps the most fraught will be enforcement of ...
State and local governments are chomping at the bit to receive a share of the $350 billion reserved for them in the latest COVID-19 stimulus bill. Rather than addressing...
House Democrats are poised to vote for Washington, D.C., statehood.
If Senate Democrats kill the filibuster, the party could admit D.C. as a state and thus seat two new ...
