Two Legacies of Dolores Huerta

The farmworker icon’s history raises uncomfortable questions about what happens when protecting a movement becomes more important than...

Free the Civics Schools

These centers can revive needed rigorous civics education — if hostile faculty don’t get in the way.

Be Ready-ish

There’s no need to prepare for doomsday. Probably.

I stared down the ‘Blind Sheikh’ for the...

It was a surreal moment — here I was, an FBI agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force, standing on a street corner in Jersey City, going jaw to jaw with the infamous spiritual leader of the Islamic Group, the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel-Rahman.  An Egyptian cleric marinated in ideological hatred by the Muslim Brotherhood, […]

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