What happened in the Seattle Public Schools stands as a cautionary tale of how good progressive intentions can go terribly wrong, and as a microcosm of how the national turn in some of the country’s most educated and economically successful blue jurisdictions over the last decade away from a focus on accountability and academic achievement in schools has turned into an extended exercise in self-sabotage.

Our national politics since 2000 have been marked by close elections, a closely divided Congress, bitter partisan battles, with neither party able to gain a sustainable majority of public support.

In Washington, D.C., politicians, too, are signaling a need for slowdown.

After he, by “the luck of the draw,” had won “the gay marriage case,” he joked that maybe a one-decade continuance might be appropriate to create an opportunity for “a consensus to emerge.”  Instead, he learned the case was on a fast track.

With New York City a global media hub, the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath were arguably the most photographed, filmed, and written-about tragedy of modern times. Thus the museum is able to replay the day almost minute by minute.

Due to remote external forces they could not begin to control, both Middleton and Ferndale lost jobs that had brought prosperity for a generation. Here is where JD Vance’s Middleton and my Ferndale begin to diverge.