Thanks to the new COVID-19 vaccines, herd immunity isn’t far off and recovery from the ravages of the pandemic is near. Restaurants, small businesses and sports venues are reopening. Masks
Thanks to the new COVID-19 vaccines, herd immunity isn’t far off and recovery from the ravages of the pandemic is near. Restaurants, small businesses and sports venues are reopening. Masks
Jonah Goldberg
The Democratic Party is often called the party of government Ideologically, this is so obviously true it’s not worth belaboring. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. We have a federal government for a reason, and there are things it should do. Reasonable people can debate what those things are.
But there’s a difference between being the party of government in the ideological sense and being the party of government in the literal sense. A core constituency of the Democratic Party, both in terms of voters and donors, is people who work for the government.
Members of teachers’ unions regularly constitute around 10 percent of delegates to Democratic Party conventions. There are about 3.5 million public school teachers in America, comprising about 1 percent of the U.S. population. That means teachers’ union members are over-represented among the activist base of the Democratic Party by a factor of about 1,000 percent. In 2019-2020, according to Open Secr
A Year of COVID-19: What It Looked Like for Schools A Timeline 13 min read A Timeline 13 min read
It started with the closure of a single high school in Washington state on Feb. 27, 2020.
A school employee’s relative had gotten sick and tested positive for the coronavirus. The school underwent a deep cleaning and reopened two days later.
One month later, nearly every school building in the United States was shut down, an unfathomable moment. Schools scrambled to stand up a remote learning program some virtual, some by passing out packets of learning materials.
Most of us thought this disruption would last a few weeks, maybe a month.
Taking on a New Role, Susan Rice is Asserting Herself
After serving as United Nations ambassador and national security adviser in the Obama administration, she has unexpectedly ended up helping oversee domestic policy in the Biden White House.
“I’ve got more to do than I’ve got hours of the day,” said Susan E. Rice, the head of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council. “It’s new terrain, so it’s fun.”Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
March 5, 2021
WASHINGTON When President Biden and his top advisers decided to bomb Iran-backed militias in Syria last week, Susan E. Rice was not in the room.