State public schools began the new academic year an estimated 8,000 teachers short of what is needed to fill classrooms properly. Schools also need hundreds of bus drivers and support staff. Hillsborough County has about 800 teacher vacancies and 600 staff shortages, according to WFLA.com. […]

Departing his small, unshowy home state of Delaware, Joe Biden roared into the sky aboard Air Force One, borne aloft by jet fuel and a dramatic uplift in his political fortunes. A thousand miles away, some unexpected guests had just arrived at the opulent Florida […]

Taiwan participates in global organizations like the Olympics as “Chinese Taipei,” to avoid political problems with China, which views the self-governing democratic island as its own territory and bristles at anything that suggests it is a separate country. Taiwan’s southern city of Kaohsiung had been […]

WASHINGTON —  In May, an eccentric 30-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire named Sam Bankman-Fried made a startling proclamation. In a podcast interview, Bankman-Fried said he would spend as much as $1 billion of his estimated $12.8-billion fortune on American politics by the 2024 election, joining the ranks of […]

Every day at The Overhead Wire, we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to […]

The FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida mansion has made the most headlines this week, but Pennsylvania lawmakers are also finding themselves drawn into investigations. On Wednesday, PennLive reported that the FBI delivered subpoenas to several Republican state representatives’ and senators’ […]

Placeholder while article actions load In January 2019, every field organizer who worked on Kyrsten Sinema’s campaign was invited to see her sworn in as a U.S. senator. I regretted not going when I saw the photos: She’s standing in a pencil skirt with a […]

Gibbs was elected in a 2016 special election and was re-elected in 2019 to serve as the District 72 Representative. In February, State Representative Debra Gibbs, a Democrat representing House District 72, announced her candidacy for Hinds County Circuit Court Judge, Sub-District 2. Reflecting on […]

President Biden, in response, has signaled his intention to stay out of the process as an independent watchdog investigates the inspector general. But Joseph V. Cuffari and his staff have refused to release certain documents and tried to block interviews, effectively delaying that probe, which […]

The day before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, a small book by Jonathan Leeman and Andy Naselli was released: How Can I Love Church Members with Different Politics? Nobody knew at the time how much we’d need it. Faint cracks in relationships […]