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Americans have long suspected that, for many, a college degree simply isn’t worth the price. American taxpayers – two-thirds of whom do not have a college degree – are likewise increasingly skeptical of the notion that they should pay off loans that someone else made the decision to take out. With recently published College Scorecard data, American students and
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President Donald Trump believes in America First except when it comes to the Saudi royal family. Then it is Saudi Arabia first. At the end of November, U.S. military leaders were in Riyadh negotiating the employment terms for the royal’s new bodyguards. That is, the plan for an expanded American military presence in the Kingdom
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In any discussion of modern child-rearing methods, you will inevitably hear the pejorative nickname “helicopter parents.” This denotes mothers and fathers who supposedly smother and cosset their offspring. These kids will grow up to be “snowflakes” who need “safe spaces” to protect them from anything disagreeable in life. My children are currently ages three and
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On the first day of her senior year, Sky Bloomer left the house wearing “black leggings and a tight, spaghetti-strap crop top” and feeling “powerful.” Her parents tried to stop her. Her mother – who is quick to emphasize that Sky’s choices are fully her own and that she is proud of her daughter for “standing up
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The story of America is one of moving. A total of 13.6 percent of Americans today were born in another country, and most of us are descended from immigrants. This story of migration also includes moving within the country. Over the last 200 years, Americans have settled the frontier, moved away from cities toward suburbs
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Socialist policies have entered the American presidential race with new ferocity in the 2020 election thanks to Bernie Sanders and his senate colleague Elizabeth Warren. But the wealth tax and other redistributive proposals these two senators propose aren’t out of left field. America has seen other, more invasive schemes for ending inequality throughout its history.
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