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By Celinda Lake and Mac Heller Washington Post July 20 2023 Celinda Lake, a Democratic Party strategist, was one of two lead pollsters for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Mac Heller is a documentary film producer, most recently of “Rigged: The Voter Suppression…..
Analysis by Gillian Brockell Washington Post July 20th 2023 Former police chief turned yoga instructor turned Jan. 6 defendant Alan Hostetter had a quote to share with the court during closing arguments in his federal trial, for which he defended himself. “When governments fear the people, there…..
By Ramesh Ponnuru Contributing columnistWashington Post July 25th 2023 American politics is awash in nostalgia. It’s bipartisan, and it starts at the top. All of our recent presidents have trafficked in it. Donald Trump’s inaugural address in 2017 portrayed a nation that had fallen…..
THEORY OF CHANGEMyScore is built on a narrative theory of change. The outcome we aim for in our work is a new story, a new frame of meaning, rather than just a new set of skills. Or put in another…..
By Amanda Ripley Contributing columnist Washington Post March 30 2023 At a cocktail party in a crowded Washington living room some years ago, I met a magazine editor who was working on a high-profile new book. It would transport the reader into…..
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist|Follow Washington Post July 11th 2023 Hope is summoned so often in speeches and sermons that invoking it invites the very cynicism and resignation it is meant to answer. The word can seem to be a crutch to…..
By Tamia FowlkesJuly 9, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Aaron Satyanarayana was disheartened by the recent Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action. His girlfriend, Maxine Ewing, is worried about the fallout from the court’s decision to block President Biden’s plan to…..
In a rare, salted-paper photograph, Frederick Douglass wears a sophisticated high collar, an elegant three-piece suit and a short salt-and-pepper Afro, coifed with a part down the middle of his scalp. Douglass, who would become one of the most photographed people of…..
By Nicole AsburyJuly 5, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT For the past few months, hundreds of Muslim and Ethiopian Orthodoxparents have called on Maryland’s largest school system to restore an opt-out provision for books that feature LGBTQ+ characters. These new advocacy…..
By Britt Peterson WP June 16 2023 Magazine Ayobami Balogun, 23, thought she would work at Microsoft for the rest of her life. As an immigrant from Nigeria and the oldest of five children, she had chosen a career in software engineering because it would provide…..