Fifty years ago when Ron Paul (father of Sen. Rand Paul) was running for Congress from Texas, a billboard featured an obese Uncle Sam with the caption “let’s put big government on a diet.” Since then, the federal government has grown even more obese. To seriously address the problem, ...
The two finalists to become Trump’s Treasury Secretary — the person will have a major hand in cutting taxes for the wealthy and raising tariffs so everyone pays more — are Howard Lutnick, who’s CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s co-transition chair, and Steven Bessent, the founder ...
America is outgrowing the Democratic Party. That’s not a partisan claim; it’s demographic reality. Blue states are shedding population and will have less representation in Congress and fewer votes in the Electoral College after the next census. Two nonpartisan nonprofits, the Brennan ...
Turbulent times can make people feel helpless and hopeless, but we have more agency than we might think. We can still choose to live life on our own terms — whatever that means for each of us individually. This is what the McCaffertys did. “So many people have fallen prey to this idea that ...
“This is junk food, Mommy.” That’s what my 6-year-old told me as he sat down to his pre-swimming lesson snack. I’d given him peanut butter pretzels, fruit snacks and a piece of leftover Halloween candy. “It’s bad for me, and I’ll get tired in a half-hour,” he went on, ...
I recently read an informative article that provides advice for talking to children who may be stressed about the presidential election results. Held features an interview with a 37-year-old father who voted for President-elect Donald Trump, but his two older children, 11 and 13, had ...