Kara Hurvitz·Mar 15, 2022National News Roundup: Year 6, Week 8 (March 6–12)This week seemed to get rougher and rougher as it went, and it also dragged like a butt-scooting dog. Then we got to the weekend, which…
Kara Hurvitz·Mar 8, 2022National News Roundup: Year 6, Week 7 (February 27 — March 5)The news really feels like a jumble of odds and ends this week, and we haven’t had a miscellany week like this in a little while. That…
Kara Hurvitz·Mar 1, 2022National News Roundup: Year 6, Week 6 (February 20–26)The news is, quite understandably, very focused on the situation in Ukraine for another cycle, and that’s some grade-A nightmare fuel right…
Kara Hurvitz·Feb 22, 2022National News Roundup: Year 6, Week 5 (February 13–19)For most of the week, the news felt like it was holding its breath, which is never a comfortable feeling. Then this evening, one of the…
Kara Hurvitz·Feb 1, 2022National News Roundup: Year 6, Week 2 (January 23–29)If I had to catalog my own reaction to the news this week, I think it would be ‘pronounced disgust’–it’s hard to read about so many system…
Kara Hurvitz·Jan 25, 2022National News Roundup: Year 6, Week 1 (January 16–22)Wednesday night was a rough night for democracy, and I know many of us are disappointed. But there’s a lot of work left to do, and we will…
Kara Hurvitz·Jan 11, 2022National News Roundup: Year 5, Week 51 (January 2–8)COVID news has center stage for yet another week, with everybody trying to make sense of this latest chaotic surge. We have more…