MICHIGAN CITY — I was with a veteran Democratic operative on a wintry night in 1998 when the story of President Clinton’s relationship with a White House intern broke on network news. Monica Lewinsky was revealed, and the scandal began…
This has been a pretty amazing few weeks. The news cycle 24/7 has been chugging away. I have been doing a ton of media hits talking about the markets, the election and … oh yeah, the pandemic.
The new Lost Wages Assistance program ($300/week in unemployment benefits) from the Trump administration is a woefully inadequate response to our national emergency.
In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For Black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which started in 1936, exceeded anyone’s wildest dreams.
In a tweet Joe Biden wrote on Jan 22, 2020, he said: “When we divert public funds to private schools, we undermine the entire public education system. We’ve got to prioritize investing in our public schools, so every kid in…
Opposition to statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico has emerged as a selling point among Republicans running for reelection.
The “social cost of carbon” — a calculation of how much fiscal harm is currently foisted on society by emitting a ton of dreaded carbon dioxide — has just plummeted due to a re-calculation by the Government Accountability Office. It…
“If they’re sitting there with a gun, in hostile situations, we don’t want them shooting unnecessarily, I’m certain, given all that’s gone on nationally,” Councilman William Godwin, D-1st, said.
When coupon users become adept at matching high-value coupons to great sales, they can bring products home for extremely low prices.
Some Indiana health departments prefer to do contact tracing themselves so they can go into more depth on cases to keep the coronavirus at bay.