Make way for an even bigger, more bloated government. Pew Research Center on Social & Demographic Trends has a new survey that shows Generation Z-ers, like the Millennials they follow in years, believe government — not the individual, not the private sector — is the better source to handle societal ills and solve national problems.
Be careful on interpreting Robert Mueller’s statement about BuzzFeed. It’s not completely clear that the special counsel is disputing the BuzzFeed core claim or something else.
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines blackmail as "the act of getting money from people or forcing them to do something by threatening to harm someone unless [they do] as you say."
Families and trust -- the emotional kind as well as the financial one -- are central to Kathy Wang's first novel, "Family Trust."
When CNN's Jim Acosta tweeted a selfie video from the U.S.-Mexico border, he was roundly mocked and ridiculed for claiming he saw no "crisis" at the "tranquil" spot where he stood. Of course he didn't. Because where he stood was on the safe side of a steel barrier protecting him (and the rest of America) from illegal border crossings.
Rep. Steve King from Iowa has become a pariah on Capitol Hill, distanced by Democrats and his own party Republicans alike for wondering aloud, during an interview with The New York Times, this question: "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization -- how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"
On a recent trip to Montreal, I was disturbed by a billboard that greeted me just outside the city's main train station: an ad for Huawei, the "controversial" Chinese technology company.
Tony Soprano is back, in the media if not in prime time. In the year of the Superhero, the anti-hero is old news, but the ghost of the mob boss of "The Sopranos," the end of the '90s blockbuster, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the premiere. "The Sopranos" was a true cultural and political icon, and Tony has been summoned from the grave to talk about what he would think about Donald Trump as the president.
More than 109 lobbyists and 39 Democratic members of Congress attended a "winter retreat" last weekend in Puerto Rico, ostensibly to help raise funds for damage caused by hurricane Maria in 2017, reports Fox News. The fun in the sun was enhanced by a limited run of the Broadway hit "Hamilton," starring its creator, lead actor, and Democratic partisan, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
A funny thing happened to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, on her way to political stardom. She ran into Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Last month, Amnesty International released a new report that outlined the costs of a dangerous and often deadly cycle of violence occurring in Nigeria's Middle Belt region between Christian farmers and Muslim herders — 3,600 people have been killed in the past 3 years, with 2018 being the worst year on record so far.
Last weekend, The New York Times reported that senior FBI officials were so concerned about whatever President Donald Trump's true motivation for firing FBI Director James Comey was that they immediately initiated a counterintelligence investigation of the president himself.
The national security talking head and op-ed circuit these days is full of "clucking" about how we can recover lost ground from the Russians and Chinese in the post-Cold War competition of world powers. Not surprisingly perhaps, there is little discussion of how we got ourselves into this mess — this because many of the op-ed authors and talking heads were complicit in our great power demise.
What are Donald Trump's chances for re-election in 2020?
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell faces the tough challenge of engineering a soft landing for the economy. The task is made terribly more complicated by economic conditions abroad and new technologies that have broken traditional relationships among growth, employment, inflation and interest rates.
