“I helped set in motion a revolution that aims to rebuild something like a true liberal democracy in America,” Barry C. Lynn wrote two years ago in Harper’s. The claim is notable less for being impossibly grandiose than for being more or less correct.

Two small southern Gratiot County school districts will be trying a rare collaboration, hiring one person to serve as the superintendent of both districts. The school boards from Ashley Community Schools and Fulton Schools agreed to select Ryan Portenga, principal at Pewamo-Westphalia Middle/Hig...