A Virginia Tech study suggesting that most of our six million annual car crashes involve drivers distracted by cell phones, food, liquor and the like reflects the worst drivers in the First World. But, like curbing the drugs, guns or obesity with which America also leads the richest nations, we do little to fight a Read More
A few weeks ago, when the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, many Americans forgot the role King played as a Jeremiah who sought economic justice for all. As excerpts from the famous “Dream” speech comforted us about racial progress, our class gaps were the widest since the Depression.
While racial sideshows play on Read More
A few weeks ago, when the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, many Americans forgot the role King played as a Jeremiah who sought economic justice for all. As excerpts from the famous “Dream” speech comforted us about racial progress, our class gaps were the widest since the Depression.
While racial sideshows play Read More
Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers’ controversial view that “innate” gender differences may mean too few female scientists and engineers in the U.S. obscures a larger problem: too few American scientists or engineers of any gender. Our lead in technology could vanish, given that so few Americans study engineering, math and science on our campuses-beyond the Read More
