I couldn’t make heads or tails of Twitter when I started an account. Users were birds? What was an RT? And then that flock helped me win a punditry competition. I picked up a bunch of new followers,...
In public conversation, at least, Americans love meritocracy, the notion that the consequences people face are largely a matter of their choices. It’s the central element of the mythology of the...
The day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 ½ years in prison for killing George Floyd, writer Melinda D. Anderson tweeted that it “must’ve been a huge relief...
Paradoxically enough, as Washington, D.C., has slid from mass school closures into social distancing and working from home toward increasingly likely shelter-in-place, my neighborhood is erupting...
Many years ago, back in 2014, when the world was young and American politics had not yet gone wholly off the rails, I launched a policy research team to focus on young English learners (ELs). “Around...
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