Climate change is a clear and present danger to the health and wealth of the American people. Unfortunately, the fourth National Climate Assessment is hardly a Tom Clancy-style page-turner.
We shouldn’t think small. All signs indicate that 2019’s signature achievements could include promoting equality for women, valuing racial and ethnic diversity and achieving real gains for the less fortunate.
Miami’s mayor and city manager say that, in 2018, the city tackled housing, mobility and public safety, and improved public spaces and internal processes.
According to one expert: “Unless we start considering the spiritual fitness of our servicemen, 15 years from now the suicide rate will still be 20 each day.”
There’s an old Chi-Lites song that says, “Give more power to the people.” But in a democracy, power is not a thing you wait to be given. Rather, it is a thing you take.
When a household spends more than a half of its income on rent, the family will struggle to afford groceries, prescription medicines and trips to the doctor.
Up to 200 Americans each year are kidnapped abroad or detained by hostile states: business people, journalists, humanitarian workers, students and tourists.
In many parts of the country, the “gun culture” doesn’t carry the negative connotation associated with it elsewhere. Guns are handed down from generation to generation.
Following the death of President George H.W. Bush plenty of praise, and rightfully so, has been heaped upon him. It is unfortunate that we, as Americans, tend to downplay the greatness of a given president because he failed to capture a second term.
We have to accept that foreign powers seize upon racial divisions in the United States because they are real — because racism remains America’s Achilles’ heel.
Hillary Clinton took on the Trump administration in one of her first public speeches since the election. Clinton faulted the administration for its abandoned health care policy and lack of female representation in top jobs. She also rebuked White
