At a couple of speaking engagements for my book, "Still Trending: A Divided America from Newspaper to Newsfeed," questioners have asked...

On Friday, April 12, The New York Times ran an article on recent immigrants, with a top of the story focusing on a young man from the...

It’s truly amazing — and baffling — that it took more than a century for Congress to pass an anti-lynching bill into law, but that was...

Alabama’s Republican-led legislature voted this week to protect the in vitro fertilization industry after the state’s Supreme Court ruled...

Perhaps it’s time to reboot the importance of Presidents’ Day in America. Now it’s barely recognized except for the plethora of retail...

The New York Times on Feb. 3 published a story on how librarians have come under the gun — literally, in the case of a northern Idaho...

Earlier this new year, David D. Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Inc. bought The Baltimore Sun Media Group. Besides The Sun, the...

I had the privilege in mid-January to participate in a media panel in University Park, Maryland, with Marta McLellan Ross, the vice...

the sad reality is that thoughtful letters to newspapers used to play a more important role in society.