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Why Americans Have Soured on Higher Education

Without standards, college degrees aren't worth much. Americans have started to notice. A recent I&I/TIPP poll found that just 24% of Americans believe college degrees are worth the cost. Even among the college-educated, nearly half, 49%, said it wasn't worth the expense. Another 14% were unsure. This isn't an outlier. Over the last year, polls from Gallup, Pew and NBC News showed a significant majority of Americans have soured on higher education. It wasn't always like this. In 2010, 75% of Americans said a college education was very important, according to a Gallup poll. In ...

Spring Forward Is Here To Change Your Life

The name's Spring. Spring Forward. Some say I'm even more nefarious than my brother, Fall Back, but they are mistaken. Me? I'm an angel. I come in the shadows and simply borrow a measly hour of your z's, a commodity of which you are already deprived due to the unfortunate high-cortisol state of your daily travails. I like to think I'm a bit of a magician, all razzle-dazzle, silk scarves up the sleeve, pigeon in the hat. I relish leaving you disoriented, like, "How did he do that? How did he erase time? Isn't time just a, what's it called, a construct?" And then you lie prone in bed ...

Iran’s Most Powerful Weapon

Three weeks into a military engagement in Iran, a war Republicans will not call a war, the American and Israeli militaries have all but wiped out Iran's capacity to make war. We have killed their leadership, the replacement leaders and militia members on the ground. We have destroyed their ...

Trump’s War Psychology

Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and mindset from the old ways ...

This Is No Longer Dysfunction — It Is Danger

When a Transportation Security Administration official warns that airports could "quite literally shut down," we are no longer talking about inconvenience, delays or political theater. We are talking about vulnerability in one of the most sensitive and critical systems in our country. Aviation ...

The gender gap on Iran

There's a reason the Good Lord created men and women. So that years later political pollsters could do research on the gender gap. You have heard of this phenomenon that has fascinated everyone as the gap reflects just how different the sexes are especially when it comes to politics which ...