A Journey Just Beginning
Five hundred children were brought to our border and began a new life, but not the ones their parents had planned.
Learning from Reality
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
Chill of December
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.
Thirteenth of March — Part Three
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
How about now?
It’s now been nearly three weeks since Election Day, and more than two weeks since the Presidential race was called for Joe Biden.
Government Transformed
November is when we observe Transgender Awareness Week. But Election Day also brought a huge week for LGBTQ candidates. While many might have thought the Presidential election was the only thing happening (not unusual), this November down-ballot races made a substantial bit of history: LGBTQ history.
The work starts here
One question of what comes next for America has been answered. Based on the late progression of close-call vote counts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, it was officially projected yesterday that the 46th President of the United States will take office in January.
The Four-Year Mission
Prior to our last Presidential election, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were already cracking down on undocumented immigrants with deportation orders. In 2016, churches across the country, the most honored of American sanctuaries, re-employed the disobediently civil practice of hiding undocumented immigrants.
The cost of success
Jared Kushner, the nation’s First Son-in-law and Senior Advisor to the President, made waves yesterday with a comment about Americans’ sense of success. On today’s “Marketplace Morning Report”, David Brancaccio spoke to Fenaba Addo, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the current state of student debt economics, and who’s shouldering the load in pursuit of the American dream.
Sound Off
Twelve days before Election Day, tonight is the “final” Presidential debate of 2020, though many would argue that there hasn’t been one yet. After the first debate between the Presidential candidates melted down into a puddle of insults, interruptions, low blows, and deflections (maybe you’d prefer to read it) . . .