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By Alec MacGillis January 8, 2024 The New Yorker On a cold, clear weekday morning in early December, Shepria Johnson pulled up to a small house in Ecorse, Michigan, in an S.U.V. with a decal on the driver’s door which read “Student…..
By Astra Taylor Since 2020, the richest 1 percent has captured nearly two-thirds of all new wealth globally — almost twice as much money as the rest of the world’s population. At the beginning of last year, it was estimated that 10 billionaire…..
By Nicole Asbury December 20, 2023 at 1:08 a.m. EST Washington Post Students and educators in a protest Tuesday evening called on Montgomery County Public Schools to reinstate teachers who were placed on administrative leave for sharing pro-Palestinian sentiments. About 50 people…..
Perspective by Amy Joyce Staff writerDecember 19, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST Washington Post hen I started editing On Parenting about a decade ago, I knew we had to cover parenting in a very real way. Parents felt alone, that they weren’t…..
Perspective by Petula DvorakColumnist December 21, 2023 at 12:16 p.m. EST Washington Post A sharp rise in the number of people unhoused for the first time drove the uptick. Meanwhile, fewer Americans are stepping up to help. He traced the letters…..
By Nicole Asbury Maryland’s two largest school systems both have about 3 percent fewer students this fall than they did before the coronavirus pandemic, according to enrollment data made public this week. Montgomery County Public Schools counted 160,770 students on Sept. 30. That…..
As eighth grade began, Anna was worried that she wasn’t very popular because her parents wouldn’t let her on Snapchat. London had a tough couple of days; she had been sent to the principal’s office for lashing out at a…..
Perspective by Hank Stuever Washington Post December 6, 2023 at 5:25 p.m. EST The older he got, the more Norman Lear became the symbol of something he never agreed to be, but nevertheless was, up until his death Tuesday at age…..
By David Wallace-Wells New York Times December 10th 2023 “Why is everyone so grumpy?” my colleagues Peter Coy and Binyamin Appelbaum asked last month, broaching the subject that has preoccupied confused economists and anxious Democrats. American G.D.P. is booming, unemployment is near historic lows…..
By Steven Rattner served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. As a part-time commentator on things economic, I’m often asked a seemingly straightforward question: If the economy is so good, why are Americans so grumpy? By many measures…..