It’s big. It’s hot. It’s cheap. And, according to Tyler Cowen, it’s where America’s ‘new cowboys’ are blazing a path for the nation to follow
Malala Yousafzai: ‘The Day I Woke Up in the Hospital’
“Something bad happened to you,” said Dr. Fiona. I knew I was not in my homeland
Don’t Just Talk. Listen to Your Baby Too
New campaigns to increase the number of words young children hear should focus on real conversations too
Middle-Aged Women Feel Cheated By Bridget Jones
After making fun of Smug Marrieds for so long, we wanted to see the long-time singleton actually become one. Instead, we get a stereotype of aging.
From the Department of Petty Controversies: Schools Cancel Halloween
Of all the conflicts to roil our educational system, this one is pretty absurd
How to Be Happier at Work
Hint: stop sending so many emails
The SATs Should Bring Back Analogies
A mastery of words paves the way to serious reading, while the writing test only paves the way to semiliterate prose.
Rahm Emanuel Rips John Boehner for Lackluster Leadership
“I dont know if John Boehner has the capacity…to tell Republicans, We need to change or else we will lose.”
Tony Blair and Howard Buffett: African Leaders, Not Aid Donors, Must Lead the Way to Ending Hunger
Despite the progress we have made in eradicating disease, advancing new technologies and improving wellbeing, it is difficult to fathom that we still fail to feed nearly a billion people in the world. Nowhere is chronic food …
Migration Trends of the Future
The United States has been shaped in very large part by surges of migration, from the Scots-Irish who streamed over in vast numbers in the dozen years before the American Revolution until today. These surges have been largely …
Four “Facts” About the Middle East that Americans Need to Reconsider
For starters: our ideologies are not that different.
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JFK Was a Political Conservative
His image as a big-spending liberal is a widespread myth that needs correcting