#accountability

#accountability

On 25 May 2020, America witnessed a stunning act of police brutality when a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. The killer, Derek Chauvin, apparently confident that he would be immune to accountability, did his deed in the open, with other officers standing by and in front of a crowd of onlookers. The video of Floyd's murder shocked the nation.

The real transformation happens when you open a fresh page, choose a handful of habits that matter to you, and commit to noticing them day after day. I recently did this with two friends over coffee, and what unfolded felt less like a productivity exercise and more like a gentle act of intention-setting. If you'd like to build your own version of that ritual, here's where to start.

It's not quite a new year resolution, and it's certainly not a prediction. Think of it instead as a hope or even a plea for the next 12 months. May the coming year see those leaders who have done so much damage to their own countries, and far beyond, at last be called to account. Let 2026 be a year of reckoning.

Trump is seeking a physical legacy, a collection of signs and structures that will pay eternal tribute to his greatness. Which is why it is so importantand why it will be so rewardingfor the next Democratic president to tear it all down and smash it to bits. This isn't just about petty revenge, even if there is undoubtedly some of that going on here.

The Democratic National Committee's decision to block the release of its own autopsy report on the 2024 election is stunning but not surprising. Averse to unpleasant candor, the Democrats' governing body functions more like a PR firm than a political organization devoted to grassroots capacities for winning elections. The party's leaders pose as immune from critique, even if they have led the party to disaster.

Those shortfalls have cost the state, which has seen recent cases of fraud and other improper spending by certain charter school networks. San Diego prosecutors said a lack of charter oversight was prominent in the A3 charter school fraud scandal of 2019, in whichA3 operators used their charter network to steal $400 million of state school funding via illegitimate practices.

Tarana Burke tells Marc Lamont Hill on Epstein, Trump and how widespread sexual violence is in the United States. In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called #MeToo swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world's most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences?

The AGs have given Meta, Google, OpenAI, and others a deadline of January 16th, 2026 to respond to demands for more safety measures for generative AI, saying innovation is not "an excuse for noncompliance with our laws, misinforming parents, and endangering our residents, particularly children."

My older daughter got into a car accident while driving my younger daughter's car. The damage amounted to a few thousand dollars, and my older daughter did not want to pay for it. I offered to cover the expenses in hopes that it would settle the dust between them, but it didn't. My youngest feels that her sister should've at least offered to help cover the costs and accuses her sister of always being careless.

Good Evening. I'd like to begin by saying thank you to the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents for this incredible honor. I'd also like to recognize the Murdoch family, and the Fox executive team for making our coverage possible. Including Suzanne Scott, Jay Wallace, Greg Headen, Tom Lowell and of course Lauren Petterson, Irena Briganti, Kim Rosenberg and Thomas Ferraro who are here tonight. And finally, to my father. You believed in me when everyone else told me this wasn't possible.

He is also known, as he admitted during the New York Times Dealbook conference on Wednesday, for being "an arrogant prick." And he thinks more leaders should be. "The critique I get on Wall Street is I'm an arrogant prick," Karp said, gripping both sides of his chair and leaning precariously forward in his usual animated style. "Okay, great. Well, you know, judge me by the accomplishment."

A few weeks ago, Katie Porter's campaign for California governor was reeling. A day after an irritable TV interview went viral, an old video surfaced of the former Orange County congresswoman cursing and berating one of her aides. Around the same time, the race for U.S. Senate in Maine was shaken by a number of disturbing online posts. In them, Democratic hopeful Graham Platner disparaged police and Black people, among other crude remarks.

A 2025 National Bureau of Economic Research study found that remote career professionals save about 72 minutes a day by bypassing a commute, but only reinvest 40% of that time back into the company. That's not exactly taking hours away from a day on the job, but workplace experts say it's the tip of the proverbial iceberg on the larger issue of so-called "office freeloading."

With four serving gardaí and a retired superintendent facing serious charges of unlawfully interfering in road-­traffic prosecutions, it is not just their reputations that are on the stand.

In an era of wars and massacres with impunity, from Ukraine to the Middle East, passing through Sudan and other parts of the planet, the edifice of international justice that was born in Nuremberg is showing severe cracks. If the people who have suffered horror in Ukraine, in Sudan, in Israel on October 7, and in Gaza, in Palestine, ask themselves what international law has done for them, they will answer that it hasn't done much, says jurist and writer Philippe Sands by telephone.

Members of the Board of Supervisors are calling for action and accountability after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly forced to undress in front of each other while sheriff's deputies watched and filmed them with their body-worn cameras. Late Thursday afternoon, 17 women filed a claim with the city saying that deputies violated multiple laws and policies in May when they strip searched them en masse while male deputies were present.

Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and a great business icon from which to learn. No matter where you are in your career (an early 30-something seeking Jamie Dimon advice or an older professional looking for retirement wisdom), Jamie Dimon offers appropriate insights for everyone. If you're a 60-something reflecting on your career or heading toward retirement, here are five Jamie Dimon quotes every 60-year-old needs to hear.

He recently wrote to SFMTA officials and Supervisor Myrna Melgar, arguing that they need to shift Vision Zero policy away from reacting to deadly crashes, and instead focus on streets and intersections where speeding and other forms of reckless driving are common. In other words, instead of depending on the high-injury network-a reactive system based on an accounting of deaths and serious injuries- take a proactive and systemic approach to making streets safe.