The U.S. Constitution was written in 1787 when the country had 13 states all along the East Coast and a population of under 4 million. Can a document crafted entirely by White men in a time when slavery was legal and neither Black men nor any women could vote still be relevant 235 years ...
Protests in China and Iran come as a surprise. One would have thought those bastions of authoritarian rule would have been the last places on Earth where dissidents would defy the systems in which they exist. The dictators at the top of the ruling structures of both countries count on their ...
America has a deadly drinking problem, which is getting worse, especially among the young. A November 1 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that “an estimated 1 in 8 deaths among U.S. adults aged 20 to 64 years were attributable to excessive alcohol use, ...
When the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried this week, it ended a nearly 2-month-long drama. Bankman-Fried’s unethical business setup between his hedge fund Alameda Research and crypto exchange FTX (including the 130 related companies now ...
Early in December, Project 21 — an organization that aims to elevate Black conservative and libertarian voices — sent a letter to Twitter owner Elon Musk requesting a meeting to discuss free speech on the embattled social media platform. This came days after the NAACP, National Urban ...
After decades of watching American jobs being shipped overseas and other countries leapfrogging the United States in innovation, President Biden’s landmark bipartisan China competitiveness bill, the CHIPS and Science Act, is building a stronger and safer economy for all Americans, even as it ...