Stephen L. Carter

Evangelist Billy Graham takes questions at a press conference in New York to announce his Billy Graham Crusade on June 21, 2005. Graham died this week at age 99.

Carter: Billy Graham’s complicated and admirable legacy on race

February 23, 2018 at 4:04 p.m.

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...

A clerk pulls items for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse, in New York on Dec. 20. Amazon announced last Thursday that it has narrowed down its potential site for a second headquarters in North America to 20 metropolitan areas, including Denver.

Carter: Amazon’s utterly predictable game of musical chairs

January 23, 2018 at 1:16 p.m.

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

December 5, 2017 at 5:45 p.m.

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.

The Dallas Cowboys, led by owner Jerry Jones, take a knee prior to the national anthem before the Cowyboys Sept. 25 game against the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Ariz. Jones has since said players who don鈥檛 stand for the anthem won鈥檛 be allowed to play.

Carter: Martin Luther King Jr.’s lesson for NFL protesters

October 12, 2017 at 1:29 p.m.

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...

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who is tasked with unraveling any Trump-Russia ties, 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.

Carter: Can a special counsel uncover the truth? Dream on

May 19, 2017 at 9:05 a.m.

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.

Boulder Art Cinema will open Feb. 26 in the Canyon Theater with a weekend of Oscar-nominated films.

Movies written by machines are multiplex-bound

May 3, 2017 at 8:57 p.m.

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

May 2, 2017 at 11:02 a.m.

If you鈥檙e looking for a good movie, I suggest you try 鈥淚t抖阴ap No Game.鈥� The eight-minute film was written by artificial intelligence and gives a window onto the future.

Cincinnati Bengals second-round draft pick Joe Mixon speaks during a news conference Saturday in Cincinnati. Mixon was suspended by Oklahoma University for a full season for a videotaped incident in 2014 in which he punched a woman in the face.

Carter: Wrestling with the NFL’s violence problem

May 1, 2017 at 3:38 p.m.

Ordinary employers usually disqualify job candidates whose history includes sexual assault accusations. But teams in the National Football League roll out the red carpet.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks Thursday at a campaign rally in Delaware, Ohio. Trump, who has suggested the election is rigged and refused to pledge to stand by the results, said, 鈥淚 will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election -- if I win."

Carter: Trump or no Trump, the U.S. has a long history of stolen elections

October 20, 2016 at 2:52 p.m.

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

July 20, 2016 at 12:22 p.m.

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 鈥渢ragedy.鈥�

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