2 Years Later, Grim Photos From the BP Disaster

I’m home — in San Jose. Weird to call it home, but I realized this past week that is is. Very strange, the feelings of homesickness that were threatening to overwhelm me, but then once I went back to DC  [more...]

Have I officially become a Californian? My friend Jennie told me when I left that it takes about two years to really settle into a new place; she may have been right. When I planned this trip back to DC, I was really  [more...]

In the last couple of years, the field I work in — social studies — has been under attack from the right wing, claiming that social studies undermines the teaching of history. This is patently ridiculous, as  [more...]