"The rich should pay their fair share of taxes." Who can argue with that? But then we must decide who is rich and what is meant by fair. Neither political party has distinguished itself in making such distinctions. But Republicans play an especially outrageous game in portraying the ...
For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care? The answer has been pretty much the same over this whole period. Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin. When I've asked my Republican politicos why that is, the answer I typically receive is: Our party doesn't do health care. Then they crouch in the fetal position. Well, the GOP certainly better start "doing health care," because the issue of medical care access and affordability is front and center for American families. The Republican promise to voters ...
In 1968, Robert Mueller, poised to graduate from Princeton University, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, hoping to serve his country in the Vietnam War, which was then raging. It was the year that American troops would sustain their peak number of combat deaths, nearly 17,000. A son of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
