While perusing through updates on my LinkedIn page last week, I came across a post highlighting a thought-provoking feature from The New York Times’ national correspondent Clyde McGrady, who covers the influence of race and identity in American culture. The title of McGrady’s piece is ...

Governments often chafe at the presence of a free press. The reason is simple: A robust and independent news media keeps a sharp eye on government and, when necessary, exposes abuse of power, corruption, incompetence and waste. Exposing such things depends, of course, not just on journalists ...

By pure luck, I traveled to Walt Disney World with my husband and my son just last week between hurricanes Helene and Milton. Milton made landfall in Florida as a category 3 hurricane. We planned this vacation months ago according to our son’s fall break from school. This trip was our first ...

What issue could be more important to a nation’s future than education? A country is about people. How Americans act, work, think, choose — live — reflects their values. K-12 education, of course, is about learning to read and do math. This is what we measure in test scores. But ...

Some of you have shared with me your fears about the upcoming election, now just 22 days away. I can’t sugarcoat this. It is frightening and worrying. We have already endured four years of Trump. Another term could tip America and the world into full-bore fascism. Trump has become even ...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has gotten far more attention than he deserves for his new book, “The Message,” which contains a blistering condemnation of Israel. The response from Israel’s defenders has been equally and deservedly blistering. The heart of their criticism is pretty simple: ...