Policy Archive
Archives for February 2016


Here’s what he was wondering.


Through the 1960s, leap day was supposedly a day when women proposed to men — and when everyone mocked what a ridiculous notion that was.


In a column for New York Daily News, King claimed that “more unarmed African Americans were killed by police in 2015 than in ANY of the previous 88 years of the Oscars.”


It’s unclear if Google’s system was at fault.


Frank and funny, “Hope” is a series standout.


“They have channeled their sorrow into a strategy and their mourning into a movement,” Clinton said of five mothers whose children have died.


Police say they don’t know what happened, but the murders come amid a rising wave of Islamophobic violence.




An investor asks the Apple CEO about the long-rumored car.


Although early in her career, she has become the go-to reporter on all things transportation.


Phil Knight’s $400 million would be better spent just about anywhere else.

My ears perked up, and I asked, “How much do they pay?” She laughed, not contemptuously but with the sense of imparting a life lesson: “Oh, no, they don’t pay. You don’t do it for the money.”


That’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, in case you were wondering.


The Supreme Court justice spent the weekend he died with members of an exclusive hunting fraternity.


A world where driverless cars are prevalent, and shared vehicle ownership is the norm, offers a chance to rethink the design of our urban environment.