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Dolly Parton gave away about as much money as she kept. Her death sent me to the data: do the world's richest women give more than the richest men?
California just gave my daughter free transitional kindergarten, and I'm thrilled. Then I saw the bell schedule. A data-driven look at how American school days and American work days stopped speaking to each other.
Two hundred fifty years ago we fired a king for putting himself above the law and the treasury above the people. Here is a ranked, fully-cited catalog of 250 ways the new one brought the monarchy back.
Today and tomorrow, thousands of Americans are protesting ICE. My conservative friend back home thinks they're crazy. I think he's missing something important—and a book about moral psychology might explain why we're both a little bit right.
NYC's mayor-elect wants to tax millionaires 2% more and raise corporate taxes. I crunched the numbers – and dreamed bigger.
A nation's budget reveals its priorities. Ours says we'd rather build a deportation machine than cure diseases or invent the future.
Sport a mustache for a month. Let's save Colbert from CBS's cowardly cancellation.
Thoughts on Cory Booker's disappointing vote to confirm Charles Kushner as French Ambassador.
A perspective on John Oliver's recent segment on the White House Press Pool and golden lapel pins.
