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, ...
Every few months, a young 19-year-old woman from South Carolina boards a plane to London. She isn't going sightseeing. She's going to get her next dose of a cancer treatment that was invented in the United States, developed by an American company, and credited by her doctors with ...
"This is a story of America," Martha MacCallum writes in the author's note to "The Book of Valor: America's Story of Survival, Gallantry & Grace." "It is one thread woven from our Pilgrim heritage in Plymouth to a World War II triple ace in the skies over Berlin; to a rescue hero in ...
There was a bit of good news at the end of September, when the Census Bureau released its 2025 poverty report. Last year, 34.5 million Americans lived in poverty, a rate of 10.2%. Although this was a historic low, the Census Bureau's supplemental poverty measure was slightly ...
America makes its choice two weeks from tomorrow. It's not really a choice between two parties. After all, a record 45%t of American voters now call themselves "independent" and don't align with either party. And most of us who still describe ourselves as Republicans or Democrats don't have ...
After sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote in 2024, Donald Trump took office with a sense that he occupied the center and had dealt the cultural left a grave blow. Non-aligned or heterodox voices in the podcasting world and media had gravitated toward him, alienated by the ...
