Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent April Ryan was taken aback by his admonishment to “sit down.” She wouldn’t. “I kept popping up,” she recounted later, “because you're not going to tell me, a Black woman, to sit down. Nope. So, I stood up.” 

Before emerging as a critically acclaimed writer and poet and earning appointments to criminal justice panels by President Obama and the governor of Connecticut, before earning a succession of degrees including a J.D. from Yale Law School, Reginald Dwayne Betts spent more than eight years in prison for committing a carjacking.

The sweeping story of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman is a window into the rise of American capitalism and our country’s subsequent ascent to global power. 

There are more than 90,000 people on the kidney transplant list in the United States. Every day, 13 of them die waiting for a call. We need more living organ donors to help save these lives.