A racist tweet sent from an outside agency landed Home Depot in a hornet’s nest of trouble on Thursday. The company quickly pulled the tweet and issued an apology after many spoke out on Thursday.

The late comedian Mitch Hedberg, best known for his off-kilter observational non-sequiturs, once said this about America’s most successful big-box home-improvement store: “I went to the Home Depot, ...

Both of the nation’s retail hardware behemoths, Home Depot and Lowe’s, recently sold out to activists in ways that are the corporate equivalent of a dog’s putting his tail between his legs and ...