The New York Times has begun a major initiative, the “1619 Project,” to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
It aims to reframe American ...
Back in the days of blogging, there was something called “fisking” — the practice of painstakingly, paragraph by paragraph, examining, critiquing, fact-checking and (sin...
The New York Times, an organization devoted to gathering and publishing information, doesn’t want people to gather or publish information inconvenient to it.
A group of...
The U.S. Constitution provides two methods for its own amendment.
We’re familiar with the first: Amendments may be proposed and approved by two-thirds of the House and ...
Democrats are talking seriously about ending the legislative filibuster once and for all, effectively changing the number of Senate votes required to pass a bill from 60...
Friday marked the 100th day of Mayor de Blasio’s run for the Democratic nomination for president. To paraphrase what a previous mayor often asked of his performance on t...
Most of us who grew up in the United States before the advent of smartphones and social media can remember adults using phrases like “serious reading” or can name people...
There has been much commentary regarding the announcement by almost 200 CEOs of America’s largest companies, through the Business Roundtable, that the role of the corpor...
Thirteen years ago Friday, our daughter disconnected her insulin pump for the last time — an unexpected and breathtaking miracle.
Her story spread across the globe, cha...
It’s getting harder and harder to write these budget columns, because it must be obvious to almost everyone by now that hardly anyone in Washington (or perhaps any place...
