Can you hear the canary in the economy’s coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries on the installment plan. That is the business model behind the popular “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) borrowing platforms — loans ...

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. ...

The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The poster child case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to ...

Last month, the Trump administration Labor Department slapped a hold on Biden administration rules on H-2A visas, which allow U.S. farmers to hire foreign workers when they are unable to fill their jobs with Americans. The H-2A rules were already stringent regarding requirements about pay ...

A lot of people online have been very, very upset over the Trump Department of Justice’s two-fold conclusion, announced recently, that Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail in 2019 was a suicide and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had no “incriminating ‘client list’” among its ...

The PBS News Hour recently aired a report titled “A look at what’s behind the efforts to reshape how American history is taught.” Correspondent Paul Solman focused on how many educators are adjusting their classrooms to comply with state laws that limit the presentation of topics on race ...