What Laura Reads

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history. Reconsidering Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on “The Negro Family,” 50 years later.

Female executives and filmmakers are ready to run studios and direct blockbuster pictures. What will it take to dismantle the pervasive sexism that keeps them from doing it?

It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest.

Amazon isn't just taking the pain out of Black Friday shopping. It's undermining the holiday completely.

My dad died in an Airbnb rental, and he’s not the only one. What can the company do to improve safety?

I went back home to Alabama because women in the South are being denied the abortions that are their legal right.