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A child runs the the street during the Juneteenth celebration in the Greenwood District on June 19, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images Our country is finally starting to acknowledge our history of racial violence and inequity. Real criminal justice reform is possible under the Biden Administration. We can only unify as a country if we commit to social j...

Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Marco Rubio leads a group of senators who want to impose daylight-saving time all year. We tried this in the 1970s and quickly went back to the old clock-changing policy. It turns out, people hate it when the sun doesn't rise until 9am. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. It's almost that time again: On Sunday, we will turn the clocks forward one hour due to the arrival of spring. It's great. I don't just mean that having an extra hour of sunlight in the evening will be great — the sun will set i...

Anti-Asian American violence is on the rise, and Facebook's chief of diversity opines that unless we all work together, it will persist.

The manager wearing a mask fills in a customer's contact tracing information at Westville Hudson as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on September 30, 2020 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Although vaccines accessibility is growing, they alone can't end the pandemic. Over 55 million people are considered essential workers, and they have to work in indoor businesses with poor ventilation. A national ventilation plan will go a long way to help end the p...

The history of strongman exits from power holds lessons for democractic protection. The way strongmen leave power, and the continuing hold of their personality cults on people, can weaken attempts of the new government to strengthen democracy. The media must not amplify anti-democratic messages, and we should rethink the long period between between election and inauguration.  Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and the author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.  This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author....