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The Charter School Pressuring Teachers to Get Involved in Politics
Mother Jones • Sep 25, 2025

The Charter School Pressuring Teachers to Get Involved in Politics

A few days before a September 18 pro–charter school rally, Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy—New York City’s largest charter school network—dropped in at a new teacher training. The visit was unannounced. Moskowitz had an urgent message for her employees that had nothing to do with pedagogy or classroom management: You need to help […]

The Latest Democratic Idea: Having Fewer Ideas
Current Affairs • Sep 25, 2025

The Latest Democratic Idea: Having Fewer Ideas

Oh God, here we go again. This magazine has frequently lambasted figures in and around the Democratic Party for evading the responsibility to provide a powerful alternative to Trumpism. In the aftermath of Kamala Harris’s electoral defeat, all kinds of people and institutions are offering suggestions for where the party goes from here. Should it embrace the “abundance” philosophy of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson? Should it “expand the tent” by viewing once-important issues like abortion as peripheral, to try to encourage anti-abortion voters to join the party? Or should it pursue the economic populism of Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani? 

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