Q. I鈥檓 no longer a teen, but I have wonderful memories of you as my teacher. You taught us all so much, starting in middle school, when you empowered us to be comfortable with our changing selves, through senior year, when you facilitated a great game, you called 鈥渙ut of the bubble鈥� that ...
Michael Podhorzer wants you to know that living in a state that values unions is healthier than living in one that doesn't. Writing at Weekend Read in April, Podhorzer said that "those living in states with so-called right-to-work laws, which makes it nearly impossible to organize ...
Last week鈥檚 column on artificial intelligence drew a lot of interest. Here are two responses. Q. As a teacher for over 30 years,10 at the college level, I struggle to find any glimmer of positive in the AI craze. I repeatedly told my students in the last years to write their own papers; when ...
My high school band director (who quit and became a priest) had just been discharged from the Army. He lived by the motto: 鈥淚f you aren鈥檛 at least 15 minutes early, you are late.鈥� I can remember him standing at the door, and if you arrived late, you got paddled. Up until the mid-70鈥檚, ...
In a span of four years - from 2020 to 2024 - Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters in the 30 states where registration by party takes place. This includes Pennsylvania. In the six years from 2018 to 2024, the Republican percentage of new voters rose by 9% while Democrats fell 8%, a ...
Q. I start high school soon. In my freshman orientation packet there was a note saying AI is not permitted. I get that they don鈥檛 want us to write our papers using AI, but isn鈥檛 AI what you use when you search online? Do you think they鈥檙e saying we can鈥檛 do that? That鈥檚 unrealistic. ...
