It’s Now or Never for Journalism
new school year got underway, a group of suburban parents, local officials, organizers, and celebrities from around the country crowded into a few rows of metal folding chairs at an elementary school in Mountain View, California. The school, sandwiched between Google headquarters and a working-class neighborhood in this Silicon Valley city, was being named for Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer-winning journalist who came out as undocumented in a searing essay in 2011. I watched as Vargas smiled for selfies with a string of friends, relatives, and strangers next to the plaque bearing his name in the community where
