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What every graduate should aim for

Many of today's graduates are about to make the same mistake Matthew Emmons made during the 2004 Olympics. It's commencement season for high school and college seniors. The future may be unknown, but graduates know what they want in their future -- money. A 2025 poll by Harvard Political Review asked young Americans to identify their important goals. More than 86% chose financial security. Around three in four selected owning a home, a tangible sign of financial well-being. Just 57% thought getting married was an essential pursuit. That was just a hair ahead of accumulating ...

Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?

On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy's vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who have stood up to Trump -- such as North Carolina's Thom Tillis and Utah's Mitt Romney --saw the writing on the wall and didn't seek reelection.) Trump's purge of Cassidy comes in the wake of Trump's purges of House Republicans who stood up to him, such as ...

Democrats face midterm disappointment

As they look to the midterm elections, Republicans have reason to worry -- but not despair. They're going to be fighting uphill all the way to hold onto their majority in the House, which they currently control by the razor-thin margin of just six seats. That includes one member, California Rep. Kevin Kiley, who officially left the GOP but still caucuses with the party. "Fragile" hardly does justice to the state of the GOP's House majority. Democrats look at President Donald Trump's approval ratings and exult: As of early May, exactly six months before the midterms, Trump's ...

What is real and what isn’t ?

Is anyone else finding it difficult to determine what is real or fake on social media? What is accurate? What “facts” are fabricated or exaggerated? What is AI generated and what is real? For years now, rumors have been considered fact on social media and the spreading of false or ...

Our screen culture increasingly can’t read

We've been having a debate about "book bans" in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the ...

The bridge generation is feeling its age

Millennials are a cultural infrastructure, like an older overpass everyone depends on, but it's starting to carry more weight than it was originally designed to hold. We're trying to move things forward as we absorb tension from both directions. And increasingly, this generation is being asked to adapt to a world we did not build, as parts of it begin to crack beneath us. We are old enough to remember an analog childhood and young enough to have built much of our adult lives online. We can still read a paper map, though now we rely on GPS. We can handle a formal work meeting and decode ...