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Tim Graham

When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum. In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn't every ...

Jamie Stiehm

We have a madman in the house, the White House. By that I mean Donald Trump is a bit insane, drunk with power and revenge, and full of fury, at the one-eighth mark of his presidency. One-eighth. Time to grapple with the grave reality, that the president captured the Constitution's restraints, ...

Daniel McCarthy

The new "Superman" movie isn't an attack on Donald Trump's immigration policies, but it shows how alienated from America many liberals in Hollywood and politics now feel. Every kid used to know Superman fights for "truth, justice, and the American way." That slogan has been around since the ...

From the desk of Dr. J

The PBS News Hour recently aired a report titled "A look at what's behind the efforts to reshape how American history is taught." Correspondent Paul Solman focused on how many educators are adjusting their classrooms to comply with state laws that limit the presentation of topics on race and ...

Georgia Garvey

My son wants to eat his lunch in the shade. It's a reasonable request, sure, but he's at summer camp and they have rules, one of them being that campers must always be in counselors' eyesight, including during lunchtime. As a parent who knows that kids don't always warn you before they run ...