Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood by his decision to not censor political ads even those potentia…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a news conference in Tallinn, Estonia November 26, 2019. (Ints Kalnins/Reuters) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied that he negotiated with the U.S. for military aid from the “position of a ‘quid pro …
Teacher Kyle Schwartz works with students in her third-grade classroom at Doull Elementary School in Denver, Colo., in 2015. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) What the college-tuition scandal can teach us about public-school teacher pay.According to the Economic Policy…
A welder at work in Port Fourchon, La., in 2010.(Patrick Kelley/Reuters) College is not a guaranteed path to the American dream. Neither are the skilled trades.Did you need to go to college to become a welder? I asked. Jeff Jenkins answered with a chuckle. N…
Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil(Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters) An Advent missionChicago For some reason, the first thing I noticed on my early-morning visit to the beautiful St. John Cantius Church is a statue tucked away in a corner, between …
(Pixabay) A new book argues that class actions are a market-oriented solution to address real wrongs.Last year, companies spent nearly $2.5 billion defending against class-action lawsuits, according to a recent survey of over 400 in-house lawyers at Fortune …
Visitors at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.(Jason Reed/Reuters) And theres a reason we fight over it.There is no marriage as stable and enduring as that of ignorance and certitude. Years ago, I knew some crunchy progressives of the particularly nas…
Voters line up outside a polling station in Hong Kong, November 24, 2019. (Marko Djurica/Reuters) As Chinas authoritarian model begins to show cracks, the West must remain vigilant.You see it in the maps. In 2015, 1.4 million Hong Kongers voted in election…
At left: LAllée au Jas de Bouffan [The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan], c. 1890, by Paul Cézanne. Oil on canvas. (Ville de Genève, Musées dart et dhistoire, Geneva. Previous deposit from the Fondation Garengo) Second from left: La Mer à lEstaque [The Sea at lE…
Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Museum in Florence, Italy.(Max Rossi/Reuters) The 1960s series on art and literature through the ages remains a brilliant (and popular) masterwork, a celebration with a tragic edge.The 13 one-hour TV films in which Engli…
George Gershwin(Bain Collection / Library of Congress) Their sequel to Of Thee I Sing was too edgy for 1933.In 1932, Of Thee I Sing became the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize. In making the award to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind (who 23 years later…
(Pixabay) The long-running NPR program isnt just about how to fix cars its about the humor of the human condition.I know nothing about cars. Scratch that. I know how to steer and where the brake pedal is, and I can usually remember how the windshield wipers…