Opinion

Presidential inaugurations serve as the high holiday of our American civil religion: In front of the “the temple of our democracy” — the Capitol — presidents and vice presidents take...

Long before Donald Trump got into politics and struck a hard bargain with U.S. voters to enable their racism, sexism, and xenophobia in exchange for a brand boost to save...

Pardons have become Donald Trump’s favorite sport, after golf. Oh the fun of ‘You get a pardon, you get a pardon’ with nobody to stop you, the kind of absolute...

These days, I get a knot in my stomach every time I reach out to one of my friends. I dread calling or texting them because I know that if...

Photographs by Tavon Taylor Beyond the dozen National Guardsmen stationed behind the Library of Congress, the seven-foot-tall fence lining the back side of the Capitol, and the men in balaclavas...

Reading the news this month has been like binge-watching a bizarro version of “The Apprentice.” One by one, banks, real estate brokers, a law firm, Shopify, the city of New...

President Donald Trump has achieved many shameful firsts. He is the first sitting president to refuse to accept his reelection loss, making him a historic loser. He is the first president to urge...

Google’s legal team recently broke its two-month silence on the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit into its use of “anti-competitive and exclusionary practices” to get ahead of its competitors, especially...

The past couple of months couldn’t have been a lot of fun for Rene Fasel. The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) was under fire for weeks over plans for Belarus – often referred to...

People often ask what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say today. No need to second guess. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  Surely, the violence...