The idea that Michelle Obama shares values with George W. Bush is evidence of how power unites the powerful, even if, as she said, they have disagreements on policy issues. (Though her husband’s record ondeportationsanddrone strikeshas plenty of overlap with Bush’s.) After Stephens’s first column, many readers began announcing thecancellation of their subscriptionsTimes But it doesn’t have to be this way, and right now, we have an opportunity to force the kind of societal recalibration that hasn’t been seen since the New Deal. There is already movement toward healthier workplace norms, from Finland (where the prime minister hasdiscussed on what “Ruin the Friendship” is about. Although she did divulge that the single isn’t meant to be about animosity and she considers it a “very sexy song.”