Eight thoughts after reading Isabel Wilkerson's narrative history of the Great Migration
Fittingly, since his statue was a gift of the District of Columbia.
President Bush has not succeeded in changing people's minds about Iraq.
New software can take simple data and infer exactly what's going on across a transportation system.
At the top, federal employees leak with impunity. At the bottom, they're at the mercy of an opaque apparatus that masquerades as justice.
In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.
Women are now powerful enough to disrupt the male-dominated consensus that in previous eras silenced them. But they are not yet powerful enough to get justice.