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Carter: Billy Graham’s complicated and admirable legacy on race
Billy Graham's often heroic insistence on integrated audiences in the 1950s put him well ahead of his time; his uneasiness with making more than the rare public statement on segregation...
Carter: Amazon’s utterly predictable game of musical chairs
Amazon's semifinalists for its HQ2 are utterly conventional. Yet we're all talking about it. Writing about it. Arguing about it. Amazon has accomplished an enormous act of public relations.
Carter: Scorning sexual harassers isn’t the new McCarthyism
As the wave of allegations of sexual abuse by powerful men refuses to abate, skeptics keep raising the same questions. I'd like to offer answers to several of them.
Carter: Martin Luther King Jr.’s lesson for NFL protesters
The point of protest is disruption. NFL players should be trying to provoke a larger response than a few booing fans. Instead, the NFL protest has become reminiscent of the...
Carter: Can a special counsel uncover the truth? Dream on
Robert Mueller has already been made out to be a savior. But rarely do we learn the truth about the events a special counsel was appointed to investigate.
Movies written by machines are multiplex-bound
If you're looking for a good movie, I suggest "It's No Game." If you've never heard of it, that's OK. The film, just released this week, is a bit less...
Carter: Coming to the multiplex: movies written by artificial intelligence
If you’re looking for a good movie, I suggest you try “It¶¶Ňőap No Game.” The eight-minute film was written by artificial intelligence and gives a window onto the future.
Carter: Wrestling with the NFL’s violence problem
Ordinary employers usually disqualify job candidates whose history includes sexual assault accusations. But teams in the National Football League roll out the red carpet.
Carter: Trump or no Trump, the U.S. has a long history of stolen elections
If Donald Trump loses the presidential race, I hope he will concede and move on. That's what democracy demands. The current histrionics over his insistence that the process is rigged...
Carter: It’s no tragedy that “tragedy” is overused
The ambushes of police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas were still breaking news when my Twitter feed began filling up with fury over media use of the word “tragedy.”