Yearly Archives: 2019

When a massive flood hit Maryland last weekend, Ellicott City residents were scrambling to take cover. According to KTVU reporter Ken Wayne, “a month’s worth of rain fell in two…

In April of 2014, the first “And Counting” T-shirt from social activist brand GLOSSRAGS listed black men killed in recent police shootings: Emmett & Amadou & Sean & Oscar &…

A Missouri man shot and killed three Baton Rouge law officers Sunday, at a moment when the nation is still reeling from the Dallas sniper ambush that claimed the lives…

There’s no business like retail business, as they say (well, something like that). Hospitality and retail almost go hand-in-hand in that you never know what variety of customers will walk…

A bold experiment announced by the nonprofit GiveDirectly builds on growing evidence that simply giving people money can play a major role in mitigating the worst pains of extreme poverty,…

Last week, I started writing a post called “Hillary Won, But We Still Live In Trump’s America.” Such was the certainty of my belief that November 8 would mark the…

  America and the world are just a few short days away from losing Barack Obama as commander-in-chief of the United States. To acknowledge the massive change coming for all…

It is no secret that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has little love for President-elect Donald Trump. Ginsburg has been critical of Trump over the course of the presidential…

Maybe he really should have been Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee. Lies and the lying liars who tell them isn’t just the name of a hilarious book by former “SNL”…

Give President-elect Donald Trump credit for one thing: he thinks it’s a jinx to build your cabinet before you’re elected. But that’s not stopping his team from dreaming out loud…