A Second Chance
“Twelve years ago, 47 dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live. They’ve enriched the lives of countless humans and altered the course of animal welfare.”
Kamala Harris Grew Up in a Mostly White World. Then She Went to a Black University in a Black City.
“Alumni boast about a Howard swagger. They see it in [Kamala] Harris now — in her impatient questioning as a senator, in her tone of voice as a candidate that can read as confident, cocky and condescending all at once.”
How Reporters for Niche Publications Conquered Capitol Hill
Shifts in media, including the loss of Washington bureaus, have changed the composition of Washington D.C. reporting. Now the trade press outnumbers the mainstream press. It’s good for trade reporters, but is it good for readers?
Teaching America’s Truth
Generations of students have been taught an incomplete (and sometimes false) history of slavery in the U.S. Some educators have been trying to change this.
Driven to the end
Urged from a very young age to excel, Olympic cycling medalist Kelly Catlin committed suicide at age 23. ‘“I suspect a large part of why I am the way I am — both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ — is our childhood environment,” she wrote. “We are triplets. And we are, none of us, truly functional. … Those parched for affection from a young age do not quickly heal. I shall say no more.” “So what do I want?” she had written. “Love.”’
