The last months of this year have brought a seemingly endless series of revelations about women being harassed and assaulted by the powerful – who got away with it for too long. Let us hope 2018 takes the story into the second phase it needs to enter. That is holding accountable those who ...
You may have seen the video posted on social media by the mother of Keaton Jones, 11, who attends a middle school near Knoxville, Tennessee. In it, the little boy talks tearfully about being bullied in school. “Why do you find joy in taking innocent people and finding a way to be mean to ...
Times have changed. In the news a few days ago was an interesting case regarding a divorced couple in Hawaii. They have a child. One of the divorcees wants to formally sever parental rights. What is unusual – and should not be allowed to get in the way of doing what is best for the child – ...
Nothing as complex as the U.S. tax code, linked as the process is to the federal budget, can be amended in a manner that will make everyone happy. Negotiators for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives seem to have come up with something close, however. If approved, perhaps this week, by ...
On Dec. 6, local government officials in Mecklenburg County, N.C., got a wake-up call regarding just how reliant they are on computers and networks. That day, computer hackers mounted a cyberattack on the county’s computers, which serve one of the most densely populated regions of the state. ...
America’s armed forces are the very best funded in the world. Given the responsibilities the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard must handle, that is appropriate. But years of neglect have left the military in a rebuilding mode. A $700 billion defense appropriations bill signed ...