She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

American workers aren’t just getting the smallest share of GDP since records began. Their share of employment is shrinking and shrinking

My morning train WFH reads: • The Unexpected Winner of Rising American Tariffs Is Mexico: Its exports to the U.S. have surged since President Trump imposed new duties on countries this year. (Wall Str...

When Well-Meaning Wellness Advice Goes Viral (And Wrong)

Alt: a group of people looking at a screen that says Shamans are members of goblin town, Killing Shamans will result in exile

Calculation: BEA Table 3.1 Line 20 (Current Expenditures) divided by Table 1.1.5 Line 1 (GDP). Alternatively, Item #2 below divided by GDP.     “If you torture data long enough, it will confess to any...

It's long past time for our politicians to stop pontificating and start punching

You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

On January 19, during a rally held in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump claimed that “crime has gone through the roof” and that it “was up like 40%.” He claimed that violent crime is especially...