The New York Times Sunday magazine recently presented the first installment of an ambitious multi-pronged agenda, the 1619 Project,... Read More

The New York Times Magazine's new 1619 Project, the first installment of which was published last week, marks a watershed in American... Read More

Between 2016 and 2018, environmental groups filed over 170 lawsuits alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act, making the ESA one of... Read More

It is the summer of our discontent, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Excerpts:The latest NBC News/Wall Street... Read More

The late David Koch put his name on a few things and his money behind a great many, prominent among them the theater in which the New York... Read More

When I read mainstream political commentary, I often think of the awkward gyrating Elaine used to do on Seinfeld, flapping her limbs in... Read More

ver the weekend, a group of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched through Portland. Members of left-wing groups in black clothes showed up... Read More

When Senator Kamala Harris is criticized for actions she took as San Francisco's district attorney or as California's attorney general, the... Read More

It's no secret that major rifts have opened up between advocates of free markets and social conservatives in recent years. As someone who (1)... Read More

Earlier this year, Dr. Julia Shaw wrote an article for Psychology Today entitled, “Why Are We Not Outraged that Prisons Are Filled with... Read More

The recent battle over a citizenship question on the 2020 census perked up ears and attention on both sides of the political aisle. Part of... Read More

The United States may have a chance to make some small restitution for the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee Nation, whose lands were effectively... Read More

August in Washington can be the political equivalent of an elephant graveyard: One good rain can wash away the dirt and expose the bones of... Read More

On Monday, President Donald Trump tweeted out a study on Google bias from Ph.D. psychologist Robert Epstein. Epstein supported Hillary... Read More

“Convicted felons” may be getting a makeover in San Francisco.Under a new resolution by the city's Board of Supervisors —... Read More

Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with... Read More

Among the thousands of personal appeals on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, you'll find a 2017 campaign for a young woman named Kirstin, a... Read More

bout 25 years ago, I asked Paul Begala, then an adviser to Bill Clinton, how the Democrats failed to pass a health care bill when they... Read More

White nationalists around the world are appropriating the language of environmentalism.The white nationalist who allegedly massacred 22... Read More

Even if Democrats regain unified control of the White House and Congress in 2020, the fate of their ambitious legislative agenda will still... Read More

President Trump fulfilled a campaign promise when his administration declared China a “currency manipulator.” This designation... Read More

Joe Ford is sitting at the Pelican Landing, an outdoor restaurant in a fancy marina on the Intracoastal Waterway. Across the way is a... Read More

There are two kinds of people: those who know nothing about Esalen and those who purport to know everything about it. To find out which kind... Read More

On December 3, 1860, a group of abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, gathered at a public meeting hall in Boston, Massachusetts, to... Read More