Many of us have found generic medicines to be good alternatives to more expensive brand-name drugs. But sometimes, they are not available. If we need a certain pharmaceu...
The resurgent conservative movement, fueled primarily by the Tea Party, has dramatically changed the political map in America. Outside of major metropolitan areas, liber...
Let’s be clear: America is an undertaxed society. Our wants and needs from government — the two blur — exceed our willingness to be taxed. This has been true for decades...
There are so many unusual, unprecedented aspects of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office that it’s hard to know where to begin.
By his own yardstick, the number of pr...
President Barack Obama got a big laugh a year ago, when he did his comedy shtick at the White House Correspondents Dinner for the final time. “If this material works wel...
Growing up isn’t what it used to be. There’s a yawning gap between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood: a period when millions of 20-somethings and 30-...
In Gettysburg in October, candidate Donald Trump promised his first 100 days in office would produce “the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime.” That hasn...
“You know, I said we were going to build a wall and Mexico was gonna pay for it. But it turns out, the bad hombres heard about Trump, and they stopped coming. They gave ...
The French are too intellectually vain to borrow others’ political ideas, but too interested in style not to appropriate that of others. So, on May 7 they might confer t...
Soon after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, attendance at Priscilla’s beauty salon in Des Moines began to fall.
“Quite a bit,” said owner Eva Ortiz, who offers h...
