It's one thing when government raises your taxes, suffocates your business with regulations or censors your tweets. It's far worse when government is to blame for actually shortening your life. U.S. life expectancy dropped to 76.4 years, the lowest in 25 years, according to new federal data. ...
In the final week of 2022, we Americans can foresee two significant economic risks in 2023. The first one is a probability that the Federal Reserve will get weak-kneed and stop raising interest rates before inflation is truly under control. The second risk is that Congress will continue to ...
It's the season for giving. I'll give! I'll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps ex-cons find purpose in life through work. "Work works!" they say. It does. Doe Fund graduates are less likely to go back to jail. I'll donate to Student Sponsor Partners, which helps at-risk kids escape ...
The People's House to Senate: hello, we are what American democracy — and demographics — look like. The upper Capitol chamber is more country, while the House is more city. The Senate, the "world's greatest deliberative body," is growing old — literally. It does not deserve all the ...
There are media heavies we saw written about, talked about, day after tedious day, month after tiresome month. May the obsession over them fade in 2023. Mehmet Oz. Donald Trump's hand-picked TV doctor lost his quest to win an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, but his ads live on. One showed ...
This is an honest Christmas cookie recipe. Current fashion in online recipes is to begin by treating readers to a personal essay about the emotional impact almonds have had on your life, followed by a culinary genealogy of cookies, stretching back to William the Conqueror. But I've got 354 ...
