Trump’s Attack on Education

Trump’s Attack on Education Virginia Lea In 1954, Brown vs Board of Education established the principle that segregated schooling was against the law. At the time, for many White and Black people, it seemed like a bold and socially just advance; for others, it was a problematic development that would lead to negative outcomes. Racists … Read more

The Horror of Trump’s Ascendance to a Dictator’s Throne

So many friends and colleagues are responding with power and grace to the current political order and its awful consequences. Not that what preceded it was great—including slavery, ethnic cleansing, the caste system—but what is happening now certainly gives a pause to Martin Luther King’s reminder that “the arc of the moral universe is long, … Read more