Well, I guess this was inevitable.
Yes, that’s right. After almost three years on the Southwest Shadow staff, two years as an editor and one year as the managing editor, I’m exiting stage...
20 years ago, a then-niche political writer named Christopher Hitchens wrote a sharp rebuke to a then-definitely-not-niche academic named Noam Chomsky. Though the two men had largely agreed on politics,...
Perhaps the most humiliating part of the Trump Administration’s four years was when their repeated attempts to overturn the election were shot down repeatedly by courts across the country. Despite their...
60 or 70 years from now, when I’m a decrepit old man edging slowly towards a timely death, if someone were to ask what brightspots I enjoyed during my high school years, I’ll likely have two answers....
Following the spike of cases due to Omicron, a new wave of school closures have rocked cities across the country. Thousands of schools have closed the first week of the year. School districts in Montana,...
“...We run around with these signs: ‘build more schools, less jails, build more schools, less jails’ - and we walk around everywhere - ‘build more schools’ - we protest ‘build more schools...
The first national political fight I ever paid actual attention to was the fight over gay marriage. From around early 2013 to the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing it nationwide, I was baffled...
“I've never been a liberal in any way, shape, or form.”
The defense from West Virginia’s senior senator came as he was under fire from the Democratic Party’s more progressive members over his...
I’ve admittedly borrowed this headline from The New York Times’ resident conservative writer Bret Stephens. The columnist - a hardcore right-winger who lent his support to Democrats in the Trump years...
If you watched the August 26 CCSD School Board meeting, it can be hard to imagine that there are any sort of legitimate concerns with the formation of CCSD’s Anti-racism, Equity, and Inclusion task force....
Following the wave of racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd, a growing number of progressives figured that their political efforts were best spent in the classroom — that is, rewriting...
“Left-wing anti-semitism” has been an increasingly common target of conservative rile over the past few years. Many right-wing outlets and organizations have dedicated a significant amount of time...
