When it comes to most educational outcomes, Alaska can’t boast about being number one. However, according to a Harvard study published last year, our charter schools can. Make no mistake, we’re not talking about private schools. Charter schools in Alaska are public schools. They are the envy of the nation because they excel at offering […]
Dear Alaska Native News, Happy Holidays! I hope you are looking forward to a peaceful and joyful holiday season. In the next couple of weeks, Members of the 119th Congress will be sworn in, and I will no longer be the Representative for All Alaska. As this transition begins, I am determined to ensure that […]
The comparisons between Mussolini’s declaration of dictatorship in 1925 and Trump’s re-election are striking. In June 1924, Benito Mussolini—the Prime Minister of a tottering Liberal Italy—ordered the assassination of a left-wing Member of Parliament, Giacomo Matteotti. When Matteotti’s body was discovered two months later in a wooded area north of Rome, political rumors and controversies […]
Now that a fascistic party has won the presidency along with the Senate and apparently the House as well, the stakes for people and planet are truly beyond comprehension. A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party: “The path to victory in a […]