1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (16+ words) Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News....

20+ hour, 38+ min ago  (203+ words) What The Wage Standard does best is highlight the great discretion we have to increase wages and the wisdom of bold steps to reduce inequality. For advocates, it buttresses arguments calling for better wages. For policymakers, it offers a dose…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (667+ words) The message is unmistakable: strength is demonstrated through visible severity." Yet beneath the noise, bipartisan criminal justice reform not only shows signs of life but may even be regaining momentum, even as Trump engages in pyrotechnics like calling the Pope…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (176+ words) Mike Lofgren is a historian, writer, and former congressional staff member for the House and Senate. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (682+ words) Higher education has been buzzing about a new report from Yale University on the decline of public trust in colleges and universities. The report is unexpectedly self-flagellatory, which is why it's earned hyperbolic headlines since its release. (Yale report savages…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (959+ words) Eighteen months ago, at a campaign rally for Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson gleefully portrayed the Republican nominee as a "dad" poised to tell America, "you've been a bad girl," who is going to get a "vigorous spanking." Last week on…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1126+ words) The intimation of a sword of Damocles went viral. In another era, they did away with Leon Trotsky with an ice pick while he lay in exile in Mexico. Today, it's a lethal rocket strike pulverizing a building." It should…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (548+ words) Journalists are often accused of using the following aphorism to determine the newsworthiness of a story: "Once an accident. Twice a coincidence. Three times? A trend. Go for it!" Using that habit of mind to drive journalism is a bad…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (302+ words) Russia's history is a grim succession from a royal Czar to a revolutionary communist Czar, a repeating cycle in which the only consistent losers have been the powerless'the vast majority of Russian, then Soviet, citizens. Putin did not invent this…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago  (775+ words) Where I side with Mc Bride over Deggans is in opposition to the WHCA's decision to continue inviting Donald Trump. A fundraising event to support "programs to educate the public and the value of the First Amendment and a free…...