Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy — and is growing. Yet investors continue buying Treasury ...
In 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidential election partly on the basis of his campaign's false accusation that George H.W. Bush had overseen "the worst economic performance since the Great Depression." Or so claimed Clinton's running mate Al Gore. James Carville, chief campaign adviser to ...
As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters (though they have been better in midterms), that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And ...
For months, ideological enforcer journalists who intensely labor to keep left-wing elitist media outlets as leftist and anti-Trump as possible have been panicking over the Ellisons getting their hands on CNN and turning it into — cue siren noises — another CBS News. Paramount has been ...
Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It's why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations. The response to such terrorism isn't to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright ...
I studied British history in college and grad school and am struck by the parallels between the British Empire in days of yore and the United States today. The era of British supremacy began with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and lasted well over a century. By the end of World War II, the ...
