By Sonam Sheth is an Evening Politics Editor at Newsweek who is based in New York. She joined Newsweek in 2024 and previously worked at Business Insider and CNBC. Sonam has extensive experience covering national security, foreign policy, elections, and stories at the intersection of law and polit...

Remember Metal Shop and Auto Shop?The kids taking those high school classes were building practical skills (and sometimes instant careers) while we squishy liberal-arts types floundered to find ourselves, sometimes for years.At some point, the big brains overseeing public education adopted an eve...