What a glorious day in June. The Barack Obama Presidential Center opening in Chicago gave us a complete contradiction of the times we've been living through. Community rather than chaos, lightness versus darkness, and hope instead of fear. I might add: beautiful music and language that ...
Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving ... Lots of people like gig work. It's flexible. You work when you want to work. But "workers' rights" activists and ...
MS NOW commentator Ali Velshi was not alone in complaining that women are "underrepresented" in Congress. It is true that women account for 51% of the U.S. population but only 29% of the House members. To which I say, "So what." Basing the notion of fair representation on racial, gender or ...
As Britain gets ready for its seventh prime minister in just 10 years, it's time to ask whether the parliamentary system itself is broken. That might explain not only why landslide election victories don't translate into stable leadership in Britain but also why America's Congress is so feckless. Is representative government an idea whose time has passed? In Europe as well as America, leftists prefer that judges and bureaucrats wield permanent power, as supposedly impartial experts who know best how to stop the weather from changing and how many genders there are. Britain's ...
President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the "Memo of Understanding" (MOU) with Iran is a good deal for the United States and world peace. That's not what Iran believes. Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, ...
I am on a mudslide toward death. Well, we all are, really, when you think about it, but sometimes it just seems you're slipping down the side of the mountain faster than at other times. Like, for example, when you're approaching a birthday that starts with a "fif" and ends with crying in the car because the clouds are moving too quickly overhead. It's not as silly as it sounds -- though it is, admittedly, fairly silly. I had dropped off the kids at camp and was driving back to the house when I got to a stoplight. I looked up and saw shocking blue, scattered white puffballs drifting ...
