Everytown for Gun Safety has spent more than a decade building itself into one of the country’s most influential gun-control organizations. Founded in 2014 through the merger of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, the organization has used political spending, litigation, research, and lobbying to advance stricter firearms laws. Its efforts have included […]
The poorest households in Tuesday’s electorate and the richest voted the same way. Families earning under $30,000 went Democratic by 59 to 39, and families earning over $300,000 went Democratic by 61 to 39. Between those two brackets lies everything politics is supposed to be about, and the poll found two points of daylight. It […]
One of the most popular and beloved characters in children’s literature, Winnie-the-Pooh, recently became a centenarian. Created by the brilliant English writer A.A. Milne, the self-described “bear of very little brain” who carried a “hunny” pot and had great adventures with friends including Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Eeyore has long been a source of pleasure […]
On Oct. 27, voters across Israel went to the polls in a pivotal parliamentary election that culminated in severe electoral gridlock. The governing coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, falling short of the 61-seat majority required to form a government outright. Just eight days later, on Nov. […]
I work for the military in a small building in the middle of nowhere with roughly eight other guys for 12 hours a day. The building I work in allows no outside electronics inside. There are no phones, no Spotify, no doomscrolling. All we have to pass the time between work is to play cards […]
“At last,” Socrates asks in Plato’s Republic, “the tyrannical man is left for us to consider, his change from the democratic man, his character after the change is accomplished, and his mode of life, whether miserable or blessed?” At last, yes. The midterm election results for the historical pattern, the routine flipping of popular opinion […]
I’m interested in understanding compulsory military service, an experience so very different from my own, so I recently spoke with former Army Sgt. Cliff Cahoon, who was drafted during the Vietnam War. The conversation has given me much to contemplate. Cliff graduated from Ingraham High School in Seattle in 1967. The Vietnam War was raging […]
A historic election week is ending, but the debate about the future of the Republican Party is just beginning. On one side are those who see the midterms as a wholesale repudiation of President Trump — or at least a startling reminder that neither he nor his party is immune to the laws of political...
Schools are scrambling after Google said Tuesday that education leaders need to either accept some AI in classrooms or lose access to its search engine. School officials trying to push back on an encroaching AI are in a bind. The tech giant dominates search online, and it didn't give much time for districts to...
President Trump sent a blunt message to the incoming Democratic majority on Capitol Hill by tapping Stephen Miller to be his new chief of staff, setting up what is likely to be a contentious two years between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Miller is loathed by most Democrats, many of whom view him as xenophobic...