Mark Zuckerberg posted a 5,800 word essay this evening about his vision for Facebook. In it, he commits his company to building a global community that’s more supportive, safe, informed, civically-engaged, and inclusive.
Trumps immigration ban was the big story of his first week in office. I spent some time today trying to sort out what’s happened since and where things stand.
It’s easy to forget how young many of our institutions are. Yes, some of our most important governing bodies — the Supreme Court, for example — date from the country’s founding. But some of our most important social institutions are still in their adolescence. Social Security was…
Our president would have you believe that this country is falling apart; “American carnage” he calls it. And indeed, there is work to do: millions were left behind by the economic recovery, millions remain without health insurance, and millions more feel like nobody in Washington is looking out…
Today marked the 51st Annual National Day of Football, otherwise known as the “Super Bowl,” an event so…
In 2005, a young D.C. attorney published an article arguing that the left’s reliance upon…
How sure would you have to be that someone is guilty to execute them? 99%? 99.9%? 99.99%? Now what if we reframe that question: How many innocent people are you willing to execute to sustain the death penalty?
After a string of political posts, I’m taking a break to write about happier things like books. Here’s my top five from 2016 and why you might enjoy them.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Doris Kearns Goodwin)
Listen to the speeches of the past two days and you’d think this country was on the brink of collapse. On the one hand, “this American carnage”: America as an economic wasteland besieged by immigrants and in constant, zero-sum conflict with foreign powers. On the other, a nation faltering…