Google settled a racial bias lawsuit for $50 million. Merrill Lynch paid $20 million. Maryland taxpayers will have to pay $3 million to make a racial discrimination suit go away. "This is ridiculous! Taxpayers should not be on the hook for this!" complains Heather Mac Donald, author of "When ...

In the theater of geopolitics, few performances have been as strange — and as consequential — as the ongoing pas de deux between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. What should be a sober negotiation to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II has instead taken on the ...

I usually associate construction work with being annoyed. But, during this season of goodwill, I find myself thinking of it with a surprising amount of tolerance and even nostalgia. I suppose it’s on my mind because there has been so much of it so close to me this year.  The most ...

We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums. This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and cooperate with Republicans to ...

Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z. Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren't working hard -- they are ...

When I was growing up in the 1990s, people would accuse someone of being gay, intending it as an insult. That left the person accused of being gay in a hard position. If they denied it, they were ceding the point that being gay was defamatory. An episode of “Seinfeld” mocked the problem, ...