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• After hitting 'rock bottom' over Kavanaugh, can Senate find a way forward?
• Conflict exhaustion or democracy renaissance? The age of in-your-face activism
• Why Apollo missions still inspire

After hitting 'rock bottom' over Kavanaugh, can Senate find a way forward? Posted: 10 Oct 2018 12:44 PM PDT At the height of the bitter battle over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons sat down with his wife for a soul-searching conversation. "Is this really worth our time?" they wondered, as they discussed whether the senator should run again. The Delawarean is not up for reelection until 2020 – but the job has grown more and more frustrating in a polarized Senate that seems unable to address big issues.

Conflict exhaustion or democracy renaissance? The age of in-your-face activism Posted: 10 Oct 2018 11:54 AM PDT Activists say they only want to hold those elected to represent the people accountable for their decisions and are using every tool at their disposal to do so. Somewhere the middle are the bewildered casualties – like the the D.C. restaurant where protesters confronted Sen. Ted Cruz (R) of Texas last week, or the Virginia community where one restaurateur declined to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Why Apollo missions still inspire Posted: 10 Oct 2018 09:50 AM PDT A half-century ago this week (Oct. 11) Apollo 7 rode a pillar of fire into Earth's orbit. It marked the beginning of one of the most remarkable feats of exploration in human history, the Apollo moon missions. A just-released feature film, "First Man," retells the story of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who made the first boot marks in the lunar dust.

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