Offensive
Trump’s veep candidate compared both men’s “honesty and toughness.” Please. Reagan was the Gipper. Trump is the Grifter.
RIGHT IDEA, WRONG BILL
Treasury’s plan to drop the architect of our financial system from the $10 is absurd. Kick the villainous Andrew Jackson off the $20 instead.
Brick City Brawl
The campaign for Cory Booker’s successor was already ugly, but a leaked video showing a candidate’s charged racial speech could shake things up just before the vote.
School Standards
An unholy alliance between the Tea Party and the teachers’ unions threatens to derail the most promising education reform in decades.
7 Score and 10 Years Ago
The majority of American students don’t know when the Civil War occurred. To mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, we should rededicate ourselves to civic education.
Lou Reed’s 1989 masterpiece New York shows just how much his beloved city changed in twenty years.