Today will mark a week since the killing of Charlie Kirk. While many details — including about the gunman’s ideology — remain uncertain, it has become increasingly clear that this is a major moment in American history. Let’s start here: who was Charlie Kirk? It has been our ...

Today marks 24 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In that time, America has undergone a remarkable transformation, born of a shared trauma and grief that has never truly healed. Many young Americans have no idea what our nation was like before 9/11. If you read our periodic ...

Politics is sometimes referred to as a “great game” — with incrementally more powerful politicians moving the lesser pieces around a board of boundaries, both physical and topical. We would argue that there are few venues where this is more reflective of reality than ...

Did you know that Labor Day has been an official public holiday since 1894 — with Oregon being the first adopter, in 1887? That makes this the 131st Labor Day, at least as a nation. People think of many things around Labor Day — the first days of school and the end of summer being two ...

Let us begin by acknowledging that this is a more complicated issue than many people make it out to be. That said: as a general rule, we believe that phones should be put aside during class time. Now, we have been out of school for some number of years, so we don’t want to make a blanket ...

Washington, DC is a pretty unique place. Obviously there’s the museums and historic monuments — as well as the inelegant government concrete boulders that house the alphabet soup of bureaucratic entities. But DC is more than just a showroom. The city itself occupies more than 60 ...