Income differences can be the result of something other than capitalist greed, racism, sexism, union busting, gluttonous stockholders, globalization, imports, automation, or the grasping shenanigans of the top 1 percent. ...
“It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment,” wrote Christopher Hitchens, years before ISIS released...
“The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye. The good economist also looks beyond,” asserted Henry Hazlitt in Economics in One Lesson, first published in 1946. ...
In their book Common Sense Economics, four university teachers specializing in economics and public policy warn that a “nation of economic illiterates” is “easily misled by leaders who tell us of...
After a recent snowfall in the desert, “a prominent Saudi Arabian cleric ... whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, described as anti-Islamic,” Reuters reported....
Protests that highlighted photos of slain NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, comparing them to members of the KKK, shows the level to which America has sunk in its tolerance...
The U.S. "surge" in Iraq did not work. And for an American soldier who was there, the more recent VA "surge" to expedite claims and cut the backlog did not work...
Inserting a bit of progressive politics into the holidays, the New Yorker magazine ended 2014 with an issue that included “Climate-Change Christmas Carols.” ...
"What about the poor black child that is killed by another black child?,” asked Giuliani in a heated exchange on Meet the Press. “Why aren’t you protesting that?” ...
In contrast to his current position, “President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants would harm ‘the wages of blue-collar Americans’ and ‘put strains on an already overburdened safety...
Richie Richman is a name that perfectly describes the well-heeled financial position of Mr. Richman. President Obama squeezed in time before the midterm elections to hobnob with Richman and other millionaires...
As a perfect example of Orwell's Big Brother stamping out dissent, police in Thailand have arrested protestors for reading 1984. ...
“Don’t let anyone tell that, ah, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” Hillary Clinton proclaimed to loud applause at a political rally in Boston on October 24. “You...
The official unemployment rate may now be 5.9 percent, but include as unemployed those are who are jobless but have stopped looking for employment and those who are working part-time but...
“By almost every measure,” Obama recently boasted, “the American economy and the American workers are better off than when I took office.” But what's the reality? ...