Robert Kuttner: Look Up!
Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect reviews the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up! “Appreciate the brilliance of the season’s most profound, category-busting movie.” Don’t Look...
Category : Humor
Andy Borowitz: Texas GOP Backs Statewide Dress Code for Women
Andy Borowitz is a humorist who writes for The New Yorker. His jokes get their bite by being so close to reality that they are...
Alexandra Petri: The New Virginia “Reading” List
Alexandra Petri writes humorous articles for the Washington Post. She wrote this column in response to a furor in the governor’s race in Virginia. Democratic...
Garrison Keillor: What’s in a Name?
In this delightful column, Garrison Keillor muses about the Cleveland Indians’ decision to change their name to Cleveland Guardians. As a boy, he wanted to...
Peter Smagorinsky on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s New Deal Plan for Education
Peter Smagorinsky recently retired as Distinguished Research Professor in Language and Literacy Education at The University of Georgia.. His plans in retirement are ambitious, to...
“Are You Popular?” An Educational Film from the 1940s
When you think of the late 1940s, do you think about President Truman? Here is an educational film from 1947: “Are You Popular?” The lesson:...
John Merrow: The “Learning Loss” Pandemic and Its Cures
John Merrow has written a spoof of learning loss laments and diatribes. Perfect for April 1. He writes: “Learning Loss” is mutating, and today an astounding 16 different...
The Smartest Horse Ever?
This is not an April Fools Day joke. It is just a great story. While searching for something on the web, I came across this...
Kevin Welner: Parents Thrilled with Return of Testing!
Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center and professor of education at the University of Colorado in Boulder, writes here about the “testing...
Princesses Need a Union!
Alexandra Petri and Jessica M. Goldstein of the Washington Post watched Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markie and they came to a sudden...