EconomyCommentary
Here’s a Pay Gap Worth Being Concerned About
We’ve heard about the alleged “wage gap” between men and women, but what about the real pay gap between private and public sector employees? An… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Mystery of Wealth Inequality, Explained
Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of his classic “Wealth, Poverty and Politics.” At the very beginning, he quotes Alexander Hamilton,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Quit Blaming the Rich. It’s the Government Ripping Us Off.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, having a net worth of $81.8 billion, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, having a net worth of $70.4 billion, are the… Read More
EconomyNews
How Hispanics, Blacks Have Fared in Obama Economy
President Barack Obama will be speaking this week for the last time during his presidency to annual dinners for black and Hispanic members of Congress,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Use These 3 Strategies to Talk to a Liberal About Income Inequality
The phrase “income inequality” has a lot going for it. It’s catchy and memorable, and “inequality” breeds an immediate emotional response—contempt for the existence of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I’m an African-American Woman. Here’s My Advice to Conservatives Wooing My Community.
The moment Donald Trump urged black voters to consider supporting him—asking, “What do you have to lose?”—the consultants and pundits sprang into coordinated action, bombarding… Read More
SocietyCommentary
What Can Racial Discrimination Explain?
A guiding principle for physicians is primum non nocere, the Latin expression for “first, do no harm.” In order not to do harm, whether it’s… Read More
EducationCommentary
Solutions for Black Americans, Beginning With the Need for Dads
The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people—those who reside in big-city, crime-infested, and dysfunctional neighborhoods. There… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Debunking the Wage Gap: We Are Not Victims
We have so many opportunities in the workforce, yet women are often still told that we’ve got to run ourselves ragged and forego balance in… Read More
SocietyFeature
A Preacher Turned Lawmaker and His New Campaign to Win the Old War on Poverty
Greensboro, N.C.—Mark Walker spent his childhood in and out of prison. He wasn’t an inmate, but the chaplain’s son at one of Alabama’s minimum-security state… Read More
