Amidst Two Major Losses, Education Advocates See A Watered-Down Victories in School Finance

When it comes to easy talking points for education advocates—protecting teacher contracts and assuaging the $4 billion in cuts to public schools—there’s going to [...]

Fighting for Freedom from a Juarez Jail

A week before Christmas, Shohn Huckabee and Carlos Quijas were driving back to El Paso after having Huckabee’s truck fixed at a mechanic’s shop [...]

Tangling with Frank Erwin

This is a continuation of Dugger’s piece “The Business of Education,” a review of Kenneth Ashworth’s Horns of A Dilemma. The book chronicles Ashworth’s [...]

Death of a Robber Baron

H.W. Brands’ The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield is the first book in Anchor Books’ American Portraits Series, which [...]

Following the Narrative

This is the part where I’m supposed to summarize in a few hundred words a novel whose narrative takes a “blackademic” on a mission [...]