Herman Cain, who suspended his presidential campaign this weekend after cascading reports of personal failings, is the exception. American voters are increasingly tolerant when it comes to private behavior.
What do Saudi women want? I wish I could give you an easy answer. But Saudi Arabia is a diverse land,. spread out across a vast territory almost a fourth the size of the United States and divided by religious sects and among some 45 tribes. Divining the Saudi people’s demands, never mind those of Saudi women, is no simple task.
The courtroom was packed.
The bravery of the youth of Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya can’t be denied. It isn’t pepper spray that they’ve been facing. Nor can the idealism of the Arab Spring be denied. The people of the Middle East are finally awakening to the promise of liberty.
Most people know that men live shorter (by five years), less-healthy lives than women. They’re more likely to be the victims of a violent crime, die in a car crash, commit suicide and be injured at work. Men also have higher death rates from nine of the top 10 killers, are more likely to be uninsured, and far less likely to receive routine preventive care. Hundreds of thousands of men die of preventable causes. Millions more have chronic illness, injury, disability that could have been prevented
Say hello, wave goodbye.
Perhaps we should look at the latest controversy involving President Obama as an optimistic sign. I mean, if this is all his critics can carp on, that must mean every other problem has been solved.
In the 10 years since we declared war on terrorism, our country has grappled with how to detain and prosecute accused enemy combatants in a war that will have no clear end. Two of my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and ranking Republican John McCain, Ariz., argued for controversial provisions they authored in the National Defense Authorization Act aimed at addressing those questions.
Most everyone hates lawyers. So it probably isn’t a surprise that many people hate law professors, too. A recent front-page article in The New York Times, much discussed in legal circles, was the latest salvo in what is now a long line of attacks depicting the legal academy as impractical and unworldly.
Thanksgiving week marked the traditional start of the holiday season, when our thoughts should turn to those less fortunate than ourselves. Most charities aimed at helping others report their heaviest donations during the holidays, and not only because of the urgent reminders besieging us on every side.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting an almost unwinnable battle against the ghost of Steve Jobs.
This holiday season, let’s not overstuff ourselves with toys, trinkets and gifts. The gluttony of consumerism adversely affects our health — and our children’s health.
Rare is the interview that truly exposes the soul. Subjects on the national stage tend to be too wary, too controlled, too well coached by their handlers and lawyers to offer more than scripted impressions of themselves.
There has been a strong and troubling shift in market rewards for a small minority relative to the rewards available to most citizens. A recent Congressional Budget Office study found that incomes of the top 1 percent of the U.S. population (adjusted for inflation) rose 275 percent from 1979 to 2007, while income for the middle class grew only 40 percent. Even this dismal figure overstates the fortunes of typical Americans. In 1965, only one in 20 men ages 25 to 54 was not working; by the end of this decade, it is likely to be one in six, even if a full cyclical recovery is achieved.
The holiday season is here. And in the spirit of the season, millions of people will donate food to food drives. Much of that food will be lovingly packed into boxes and baskets to be distributed to needy families. And just as in years past, such well-intentioned food donations will needlessly leave millions of people hungry. Here’s why.
You have to wonder: Could New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police chiefs around the country be secretly backing the Occupy Wall Street movement?
The next president of the United States needs to answer this question: When, and under what conditions, will the U.S. government stop using drones to bomb suspected terrorists around the world?
Every day, someone is scammed by a con artist. It’s occurring more than ever according to government data. Slick fraudsters, masters of deception and outright crooks are at it every day, all day, trying to get your money.
You may have noticed that Congress is unpopular.
After last week’s debate, some are calling Mitt Romney the “presumptive nominee.” Indeed, despite momentary uneasiness when a questioner brought up the personal mandate in his Massachusetts health plan, he held his own — as he has in earlier debates.
It’s one thing to speak along with a crowd. It’s quite another to actually speak for that crowd. The difference is between parroting and leading, between really mattering, and not. And right now, the Occupy Wall Street movement is on the wrong side of all those differences.
Silvio Berlusconi isn’t comfortable with English. Brett Ratner, I’m guessing, hasn’t mastered Italian. What a pity. They’d probably get along like a palazzo on fire.
The Groupon IPO! The Groupon IPO! Never has such a fuss been made by so many about something that emails me to suggest I get a half-price haircut.
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