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Wanted: Strong Candidates Who Believe in Public Schools

At the recent Netroots Nation conference, the country’s largest annual gathering of progressive activists and political leaders, a protest broke out when Stacey Evans, candidate for governor in the 2018 Georgia Democratic primary, addressed the crowd. The protesters...

Don’t Let Arpaio’s Arizona Become Trump’s America

Here in Phoenix, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what lies ahead for America under Donald Trump. It will look less and less like a nation of laws, and more like Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawless Arizona, unless we do something about it now. Arpaio was Maricopa County’s...

What Happened To All The Teachers?

A recent headline from CNN that declares "schools throughout the country are grappling with teacher shortages" may seem like a rerun to anyone who's been paying attention to news about public schools over recent years. "A perennial issue," an article in Education Week...

Bannon's Exit Leaves Only His Worst Ideas Behind

After Steve Bannon departed the White House on August 14, he contacted The Weekly Standard to make a bold proclamation. “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” the administration’s now-former chief strategist said. “We still have a huge movement,...

Open Letter to Louise Linton About Angels and Humanity

Dear Ms. Linton, This has undoubtedly been a difficult couple of days for you, both as a person and as the wife of the United States Treasury Secretary. Nobody enjoys the sudden onrush of hostile attention that comes when something they’ve said goes viral, and not in...

Trump Says 'Love' but Spews Hate

The rabid, racial-nationalist Trump was on full display in Phoenix Tuesday night, in a speech CNN’s Don Lemon called “A total eclipse of the facts.” The Phoenix Trump stood in sharp contrast to the more conciliatory Trump we heard just one night before, in his...

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