The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.