Mass shootings are becoming a chilling and common subject in the American news. More chilling still is the realization that the number of widely reported mass shootings pales in comparison to the...
It’s a strange and dangerous time to live in America. At least, it is if you take the word of conservative news outlets like Fox or Breitbart. Of course, it’s tough to take their word for it...
The Selma marches constitute landmark events in American race relations. The marches were organized to protest the continuing voter disenfranchisement of the African-American community in Alabama....
The foundations of modern conservatism have always been nebulous. It is less a defined set of principles than a reactionary disdain for change and bleary-eyed nostalgia for some imaginary pastoral...
Business tycoons with no moral rudder are nothing new. Barely a month seems to go by without one of them being brought up on charges by federal prosecutors, getting fined by the Environmental...
Apple has been the gravitational center of hip technology for the better part of two generations. The combination of sleek design, eminently functional gadgets, cross-device syncing and...
The political question of this generation may be, “How do we manage a balance between religion, government and society?” Some commentators on the right proclaim that the Founders imagined a...
The United States faces an unprecedented surge in the number of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America. Specifically, the children are fleeing El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; a region...
Big data is a big deal and Americans are of two minds about it. In this case, though, the division of attitudes doesn’t break along the expected good/bad line. Instead, American attitudes about it...
