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A degree of separation is a measure of social distance between people that fall into the category of humanity with the first degree being...

It’s not often — actually, it’s never happened before — that a Republican president gets dissed and dumped by corporate titans like Dow, Merck,...

Aren’t you tired of pretending that you understand the pain of the person who just called you a fascist bigot?Haven’t you had enough of...

Susan Rice, national security advisor to President Barack Obama, recently said the United States could live with a nuclear regime in North Korea but...

SAN DIEGO — What’s convenient isn’t always fair and right.I don’t like President Donald Trump. I don’t like racism. So it would be convenient...

In the South during the Jim Crow era, the “one-drop rule,” codified into law, asserted that if a person had just one drop of...

I spent the weekend dog-sitting for a very frisky, very robust black Lab named Chance, as in there wasn’t a Chance in hell he...

It would be easy to discount Monday’s firing of Google software engineer James Damore as a reasonable response to his authoring and circulating a...

A North Carolina man walks into a popular Washington D.C. pizzeria and opens fire, telling police upon his inevitable arrest that he came to...

As a journalist who lived through the traumas of the Watergate scandal more than four decades ago, I’m often asked to list the parallels...