Richard Dever had swabbed the campground shower stalls and emptied 20 garbage cans, and now he climbed slowly onto a John Deere mower to cut a couple acres of grass. “I’m going to work until I die, if I can, because I need the money,” said Dever, 74, who drove 1,400 miles to this […]
For all the effort employers are pouring into advancing women in the workplace, why are they making so little headway? One big obstacle: Men and women are at odds over whether there even is a problem to begin with. In the same offices and on the same teams, women largely view gender equality as a work […]
President Trump and congressional Republicans are ramping up their push to pass tax reform. What, exactly, “reform” means is still an open question; as my colleague Perry Bacon Jr. has detailed, different Republican factions put a higher priority on different elements of a possible bill. There are divides, for instance, over how regressive any measure should be […]
Alyssa Milano took to Twitter on Sunday with an idea, suggested by a friend, she said. She urged any women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted to write two words on Twitter: “Me too.” “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give […]
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets. By then, the opioid war had claimed 200,000 lives, more than three times the number of […]