Conservatives often extol the tough, no-nonsense approach taken by leaders of corporate interests as a way to run government more efficiently. But do businessmen really have any business being president? …
There's a new Fox News poll out surveying key swing state opinions about the 2020 race for the White House, and it paints a bleak picture for President Donald Trump's…
All leaders are demagogues. You may not realize this, because we've come to associate the word "demagogue" with only dangerous populist leaders. But in Greek, the word just means "leader…
A recent study suggests that the algorithm used by popular ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft may actually discriminate against customers seeking transportation in predominantly non-white neighborhoods. Aylin Caliskan and Akshat Pandey…
On the afternoon of Friday, June 12, grocery shoppers who frequent the Trader Joe's on Capitol Hill in Seattle were met with an unexpected sign posted to the front door.…
DELHI, N.Y. — According to the New York Times' remarkable list of Black Lives Matter protests over the last two weeks, the largest outpouring of street activism since the Vietnam…
U.S. democracy remains in great danger. For the moment, President Donald Trump has yielded to public opinion and agreed to pull active-duty Army troops out of our nation's capital. Was…
"We need to stand up and say that black lives matter." Republican Sen. Mitt Romney's appearance at a Black Lives Matter march on Sunday, after nearly two weeks of civil…
Class of 2020, wherever you are, I had planned to address you on this graduation day. But how can I? Yes, I know that former President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks all took…
"The Osmonds," a Saturday-morning cartoon from the 1970s, always ended with a sickly melody that stays permanently in my mind. "One Bad Apple" was about unrequited love (from girls, rather than…