On a Wednesday afternoon that began with the ordinary hum of classroom life, Anchorage was suddenly jolted into a state of alert. Just after 1 p.m., three schools—Airport Heights Elementary, West Anchorage High School, and Romig Middle School—began evacuating after reports of bomb threats came in at the same time. At roughly the same moment, threats were also made against Bartlett High School and Rilke Schule German Immersion School, meaning that five campuses had to contend with the possibility of danger. For the students and staff inside those buildings, the next minutes were a blur of instructions: leave your things,…

Paragraph 1 There are moments in a campaign when the personal becomes the political, and the line between a person’s reputation and their résumé begins to blur. For Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for the United States Senate, that moment arrived this week with a crushing accusation: she had lied about being a member of Phi Beta Kappa, one of the most prestigious academic honor societies in the country. The allegation, attributed to a Wall Street Journal report, suggested that Flanagan had inflated her academic record, a charge that, if true, would be damaging…