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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal0

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is from New York, where garbage disposals are not very common in apartments because they were only legalized in the 1990s, as incredible as that seems. But now she lives in D.C., and she has discovered that there is one in her apartment. It permits the user to push down food scraps rather

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  • Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously

    Public Schools Aren’t Taking Security Seriously0

    Public high schools still aren’t taking school security seriously. Last month, hundreds of thousands of students in the Denver area stayed home from school when a woman in Florida suggested online that she was “obsessed” with the Columbine shootings. The woman, named Sol Pais, disappeared from her home near Miami in mid-April. Soon after, her

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  • Dumbfounded by American Socialism

    Dumbfounded by American Socialism0

    In some regards — no, in many regards — I am a knucklehead. Talk to me of stocks and bonds, of escrow and amortization, and a curtain descends. Speak to me at a party of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the music of Philip Glass, and most of today’s Hollywood celebrities, and I will listen

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  • Be a Happier Parent… Or Laugh Trying

    Be a Happier Parent… Or Laugh Trying0

    There is no doubt that parents today face tremendous challenges. Sometimes these challenges are overwhelming and stressful. Parents of young children and teens will appreciate Betsy Kerekes’ wisdom and comic relief in her book, Be a Happier Parent or Laugh Trying. In this interview, she shares with Mary Cooney some advice on how to be

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  • Zimbabwe Is a Basket Case; Botswana Shows It Doesn’t Have to Be

    Zimbabwe Is a Basket Case; Botswana Shows It Doesn’t Have to Be0

    Over 500 days have passed since Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s longtime dictator, was overthrown. He had been in power for 37 years.   In an article published one year after the ouster, Washington Post’s Max Bearak claimed that the country looked pretty much the same without Mugabe. He was right. And the same could be said

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  • Why Schools Must Stop Relying on ‘Best Practices’ When Teaching Writing

    Why Schools Must Stop Relying on ‘Best Practices’ When Teaching Writing0

    When it comes to writing, American kids just don’t cut it. Only 27 percent of eighth grade students achieve proficiency in the subject, according to The Nation’s Report Card. That shouldn’t surprise us given the type of writing instruction which takes place in schools. Today’s writing instruction, a recent op-ed from The Hechinger Report explains,

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  • The Soviet and Nazi Inception: A Married Ideology

    The Soviet and Nazi Inception: A Married Ideology0

    It has become fashionable to wear Che Guevara or red hammer-and-sickle t-shirts as a mode of social protest against the oppression of Western society. Those who fight the injustice of Western democracy often are readily accepted and celebrated throughout American academia as they don these symbols of resistance. Would these same heroes of justice and

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  • Struggling to Find That ‘Greatest Generation’ Sequel

    Struggling to Find That ‘Greatest Generation’ Sequel0

    Here’s some interesting and revealing news: “To Stand Out, the Army Picks a New Uniform With a World War II Look.” That was a headline in The New York Times on May 5, and it speaks to the fact that World War II, more and more, is the historical and civic touchstone of American life. The Army uniform in

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  • Trump is Surrendering on Immigration

    Trump is Surrendering on Immigration0

    In the first days of May, two Californians were killed in collisions with drunk drivers. In both cases, the culprits were illegal aliens. Hector Manuel Polanco, a Mexican, killed Raul Gulliver when he drunkenly slammed his truck into the 34-year-old Riverside County resident while Gulliver was riding his bike. The next day, Arnulfo Santos-Reyes, a Mexican, ran

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