Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...
Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the ...
I don't know if you've read The New York Times article about Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, who's now back with a woman-targeted AI assistant called "Dazzle," or heard about the ensuing brouhaha, so if not, let me summarize: The piece starts off with Mayer explaining the ...
In 2010, President Obama described those midterm elections as a "shellacking" for Democrats, who lost 60 seats in the House. Then, as now, the economy was the top issue. If Republicans could have had a worse night, I don't know what it would be. From Maine to Michigan to Texas, Republicans ...
The headline item from Tuesday's elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of legislators who face the exhaustion of ...
Jackie Kennedy Onassis, a book editor for the last two decades of her life, told one of her authors, "If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." I've been mulling over her words ever since my publisher scheduled my new novel for publication in ...
