More Cops Won’t Make Schools Safer, But Here’s What They Will Do
Joshua Polson/The Greeley Tribune/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ contribution to a White House plan to make schools safer post-Parkland is predictably in line with his tough-on-crime approach to governing: put more cops in schools. Last week, he proposed a measure to prioritize grant funding for those who intend…
Betsy DeVos Wants to Eliminate the Very Programs She Thinks Will Help Stop School Violence
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at a news conference following a visit to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, March 7.Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As students across the nation walked out of class Wednesday to demand gun control, Ryan Petty, the father of one of…
What Is the Greatest Number of All Time?
Tom Garrity (left) and Colin Adams.Photo courtesy of these guys. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Williams College mathematicians Tom Garrity and Colin Adams are best known outside of their field (and perhaps inside it, too) for their occasional public smackdowns on questions such as, “Which is the better number: π…
Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire Trying to Turn Millennials Conservative
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark UlriksenIn the weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Americans flocked to the internet with pressing questions. Some inquired about immigration to Canada. Others Googled “sanctuary city.” A few wanted to know what a “manafort” was. And millions were newly curious about the Electoral…
Betsy DeVos Gives a Master Class on How to Bomb Basic Questions About Your Job
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During an interview with 60 Minutes which aired Sunday evening, education secretary Betsy DeVos fumbled through a series of basic questions about the very department she helms, doing her best to answer inquiries on policies like school choice to campus sexual assault. The sit-down with correspondent Lesley…
“What Really Stresses Me Out Is the Fact That I Might Die in This Building”
Mother Jones illustration; kieferpix/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. “It was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.”—Emma Gonzalez, Senior, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Over the past three weeks, the impassioned voices and steadfast demands of…