American parents have bought into the idea that they have a responsibility to over their children all the time.

Part of the issue concerns providing students with enrichments to their education. Only wealthy parents can do this thoroughly, so this tends to perpetuate and increase inequality.

We could instead do as parts of the US used to do, and include enrichments in public schools so that all children could have them available. But this costs money. We used to get it by taxing the rich. We need to do so again.

Part of the issue is obsessive overprotection. This is a useless burden for American parents regardless of their level of wealth.

If Japanese children can take the subway (which implies crossing streets walking to and from the station) on their own at age 6, American children can do it too. We have to learn to direct them towards such independence.

Proposal: trade funding for the border wall for reestablishment of DACA.

The article errs on one point: an incomplete border wall can do harm — to local ecosystems such such as that in the ; National Butterfly Sanctuary.

The deal proposed here might be a good idea if it can prevent the next year's wall construction from affecting those parts of the border.

White House "press briefings" are becoming once-a-month events. Perhaps they will disappear entirely.

Since they are used only to present lies, that would be no loss. President Sanders could bring them back.

Local gathering places can build social cohesion by offering a place for people to mix with neighbors that are not similar to them, people that they would not meet in interest-based activities.

60,000 students around the world went on strike recently demanding action to defend Earth's climate.