The 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident has produced an irony no fiction writer, however brazen, could produce: TMI’s owner, the Exelon Corp., has...
Every time I hear a Republican complain about Facebook, Twitter or Google, I think, “Wait — aren’t you the ‘hands off the internet’ party?”
The GOP, after all, has been ...
If I had to describe 2019 so far, I would characterize it as The Year Political Polarization Started to Erode. I know that sounds counterintuitive — aren’t partisans at ...
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people with being involved in cheating and bribery to get their children admitted to some of the nation’s most prestigious ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated itself an organization hostile to women and people of color.
It fired its co-founder Morris Dees for unexplained reasons ...
We all know that “getting into the right college” is as traumatic for parents — or more so — as it is for their children. But who thought the admissions craze had become...
He said he wasn’t running for president, no way, forget it, and now he is, meaning that Beto O’Rourke can probably change his mind on issues, too. That would be good bec...
Late Thursday night, after hours of vacillating, the media finally agreed on how to handle the video shot by the chief suspect in the New Zealand mosque shootings. The c...
Bizarre, hilarious and disturbing, the college-admissions scandal is a perfect fit for our political moment.
A central claim of today’s populists, both on the right and ...
Those of us who have always thought that Brexit — Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union — was a bad idea should be feeling self-satisfied and vindicated now. Well...
