When Colts quarterback Andrew Luck walked off the field for a final time on Aug. 24 — multiple injuries having convinced him that retirement from professional football at age 29 was the only sensible option — Colts fans booed. It was a stunning display given the quarterback’s past heroics on behalf of Indianapolis. This was […]

The nonprofit that administers the SAT test to 2 million students each year has axed its nascent “adversity score,” a clumsy attempt to distill the possible socioeconomic hardships and challenges of a student’s background into a single neat and tidy number. Good call. The College Board adversity score, which would have been presented alongside a […]

Former FBI Director James Comey now has achieved the unique status of being criticized by the U.S. Justice Department for behavior that dramatically altered the political landscape for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Last week, the Justice Department released a report by its inspector general, who found that Comey violated department policy in the […]

The controversial way America elects presidents is barreling toward a crisis point. A federal court ruling has spotlighted the confounding nature of the system, which twice in the last five elections put presidents into office against the wishes of the majority of American voters. Under the Constitution, the voters who select a president every four […]

Of the seven days allotted to a week, many working people keep claim on just two: Saturday and Sunday. The latter is often plagued by existential anxiety as the weekend draws to a close. Technology has helpfully disseminated a name for this unease: the #SundayScaries. Dread gathers as the looming week ahead can no longer […]