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6 Benefits of Garden-Based Learning 0
- Education
- January 17, 2019
If you have children or work with children, then you probably have noticed that hands-on experiences help them make connections to the lessons they are learning. This is especially true when the lesson involves something you enjoy or have made a hobby out of, such as gardening. Hands-on learning experiences surround us if we take
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Why California’s 6-Month Paid Leave Program is Not as Popular as You Think 0
- Culture
- January 17, 2019
At a press conference earlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new plan to offer 6-months of paid family leave in the Golden State. Despite it being the most generous in the nation, CNN parenting contributor Elissa Strauss felt it’s not enough, saying it’s “so much better than nothing, but leaves room for improvement.” Yet,
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Why Ex-Churchgoers Flocked to Trump 0
- Culture
- January 17, 2019
If you’ve ever been to a Donald Trump rally, you’ll notice it doesn’t match the impression left by the media coverage of the president’s base. Anger, for instance, isn’t the prevailing mood. Hopefulness is more characteristic. But there’s more. There’s something about these rallies that goes beyond politics, and his harshest critics have found it
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Why the Gillette Ad Has Been Misjudged and Deserves a Second Look 0
- Culture
- January 17, 2019
When I clicked play on Gillette’s new ad, I was fully prepared to roll my eyes at it. I was expecting something along the lines of Nike’s controversial Colin Kaepernick campaign, another example of (as several Twitter users have put it) “companies pretend[ing] to care about social justice to sell products to people
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How To Talk to Someone Who Wants To Put You In A Gulag 0
- Culture
- January 16, 2019
A few months ago, I was having a few beers with TAC managing editor Matt Purple, and we ended up pondering the great question of our times: why did people vote for Trump? After tossing around the usual answers (a reaction against Hillary’s hawkishness, his carefully curated aura of success, post-industrial blue collar angst), Matt told me
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A History Lesson on the Shifting Political Stances on Illegal Immigration 0
- Economics
- January 16, 2019
Here are a couple of easy immigration questions—answerable with a simple “yes” or “no”—we might ask any American of any political stripe: Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the U.S.? Do the American people have a right, through their elected representatives, to decide who has the right to immigrate to
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