History should unite us, not tear us apart
As a late-blooming Civil War buff, I have mixed feelings about the recently renewed national push to remove Confederate monuments across the nation. On one hand, the removal of hundreds...
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Does Trump know this isn’t a TV show?
Like a lot of television watchers, I was shocked and bemused by the way President Donald Trump dug a new hole for himself in the wake of the Charlottesville, Va.,...
How white supremacy morphed into white victimization
After the deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Va., I found the most memorable internet meme to be a news photo of torch-carrying white supremacists captioned: "Vanilla ISIS." That's appropriate on...
Why Google was wrong to fire James Damore
In one of my favorite scenes in HBO's "Silicon Valley," a comedy series about the world of computer engineers, a male engineer injects himself into a meeting between two female...
Maybe Trump the dealmaker should read his own book
After reading the leaked transcripts of President Donald Trump's January phone calls with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, I have a good book to...
Do colleges discriminate against Asian-Americans? Team Trump is on the case.
When news broke that the Justice Department plans to investigate whether university affirmative action policies discriminate against white people, it hit late-night comedians like a ball of catnip landing in...
Trump’s ‘law-and-order’ pose undermines law and order
So President Donald Trump was just joking when he suggested police officers should play basketball with the heads of suspects against the doorways of police cars? That's what White House...
Hobbling along with a bully president
Where is first lady Melania Trump's anti-cyberbullying campaign when Jeff Sessions needs it? That question came to mind as her husband used Twitter recently to beat his attorney general like...
Michelle Obama’s burden — and ours
Remember how some people used to talk about President Barack Obama's rise as "post-racial?" With bracing candor, Michelle Obama has begun to open up about how post-racial her White House...
Democrats rebrand when being anti-Trump is not enough
On a day when President Donald Trump unleashed a Twitter storm that senselessly attacked his own attorney general, among other targets, the future might seem to be so bright for...