Congress tries to ban insider trading by its members
Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single day of trading,” reads…
The 12-day war: Israel and Trump have redrawn the map of the Middle East
Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single day of trading,” reads…
The United States under President Donald Trump is liked less by the rest of the world than it was during the presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe…
Good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods differ in many ways, but the most important may be the trust gap. You can tell a place is nice to live…
The most famous merchant of America, Jeff Bezos, got married in Venice over the last weekend of June. While the world gawked at the $50 million price…
People are decreasingly literate and increasingly desperate. Pair that reality with a fast food coupon, and you have modern advertisement. For Jimmy John’s, sub sales are the…
Being a liberal bookstore means you must pretend Republicans are “banning” books when you’re the one actually doing it. This is true even if the author is a literary titan. Enter…
The mood was tense in the White House Cabinet room on that summer day, almost exactly 31 years ago. President Bill Clinton and his National Security Council…
For a couple of years or so in the mid-1990s, it seemed like every fourth pop song on the radio was by the Gin Blossoms. The jangly…
If you are a Generation Xer, or maybe even an older millennial, your perception of a possible artificial intelligence apocalypse is most likely defined by the Terminator…
Farmers are feeling a little bit better about how things are going for their sector of the economy under President Donald Trump, after tariff fears spooked them.…