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Do you live in a cultural wasteland? Is your local fine arts scene mostly relegated to finger-painting displays at public school parent-teacher nights? Is the music scene dominated by Supertramp tunes on jukeboxes and Slayer cover bands at local pubs...

The Stanford Invitational has been around for generations. I first ran in it in 1980, in the 10,000m, when it was called the Martin Luther King Games. I found out the night before my 10,000m that I was in the race, after  a day of 18 miles. I ran my...

9 Jan 2016   | Campaign Updates Above photo: Above Photo: Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), dressed as Sherlock Holmes, looks at Roxy the “TPP Tracker” bloodhound outside the Capitol on Oct. 29, 2015. Many House Democrats and advocacy groups have deemed...

A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center claims the number of hate groups in the U.S. are on the rise, which it blames on terrorist attacks as well as President Trump’s rhetoric. In its annual report on U.S. extremist groups, the Alabama-based...

In my article in the current issue, I say this about the places that my wife Deb and I have been visiting to learn about local responses to economic strain and failed national-level politics: In early 2013, I placed a short item on The Atlantic’s web...