I live in New York City. "Proud Democratic Socialist" Zohran Mamdani is likely to be my next mayor. I'm not happy about it. But I am outnumbered. Mamdani is popular. He won more primary votes than any other candidate in the city's history. Minneapolis may also elect a socialist mayor. Why?! ...
It started as a regular Socratic Seminar: I posed an overarching question, and the students did the rest of the talking (aside from the occasional follow-up question I included when the discussion slowed). We were discussing how strict electronic restrictions for minors should be and, as usual, ...
A city council is a ruling body through which elected officials meet to make important decisions regarding the city. It’s a representative form of government and ideally a microcosm of the people they serve. Orem has a six-member city council and a mayor who also has a vote on the ...
Before politics overwhelmed the word, the primary meaning of "liberal" was "generous." President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have given political liberals a chance to take that meaning back — by opening their wallets to show just how much they value NPR, PBS and other programs ...
A few weeks ago, press outlets globally ran a horrific story about Israel shooting at starving Palestinians trying to get food. The story was not true. Before the press began retracting it, a man in Colorado attacked several Jews, killing, among others, a Holocaust survivor. Earlier this week, ...
When I was in high school, rarely was an insult worse than calling someone "fake." "Gosh, I love your shoes," a girl might say, sitting next to you in chemistry, simultaneously giving you a side-eye that communicated much more convincingly that she did not, actually, love your shoes at all. In ...
