Month: June 2018

Innovators often invent the future and some do so by rethinking the past. For example, innovative historical researchers not only help us understand what happened yesterday, they improve how we respond to those issues today.

The activist and journalist's debut memoir, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America," just dropped. Revel in its radical honesty and beauty.

Weisberg finds no correlation between an advice-giver’s authority and his or her popularity, which has helped me reconcile my bewilderment that the instructions for hard-boiling an egg on Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop yield an egg of a perfection that had eluded me for decades. Nobody died and made Paltrow the egg boss, yet I can’t…

Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe explains to Alex Witt why the memo reported in the New York Times from President Trump’s legal team to Robert Mueller “has the law all wrong.” Tribe also discusses impeachment and his new book, “To End a Presidency.”

Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.

“Illuminating… The Professor Pearl who emerges from the pages of The Book of Why brims with the joy of discovery and pride in his students and colleagues… [it] not only delivers a valuable lesson on the history of ideas but provides the conceptual tools needed to judge just what big data can and cannot deliver.”