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Forget Mary Poppins: Three Reasons Real-Life Nannies Are Ruining Childhood0
- Culture
- December 19, 2018
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have heard that Disney is releasing a new Mary Poppins movie. Just in time for the holiday season, Mary Poppins Returns continues the story of the nanny who is “practically perfect in every way.” She swoops into the home of the Banks family and sorts out
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America’s Got Talent and It’s All around Us0
- Culture
- December 19, 2018
Recently, I found my son-in-law in his driveway with his van jacked up. “What’s up, Mike?” I asked. “Just changing the brake pads.” “Good grief. You can do that? Really?” “It’s not that hard. Saves a lot of money.” Well, money or no money, I have never even dreamed of changing my car’s brake pads.
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Saying Goodbye to the Scouts0
- Culture
- December 18, 2018
The Academy Awards, the National Football League, the Miss America Contest, the Emmys, many of our universities: politics and political correctness have cast a pall over these and other treasured American institutions. As a result, they have lost sight of their mission, their reason for being, which is to celebrate movies or sport, beauty or
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Net Neutrality Repeal: The Internet Apocalypse That Never Came0
- Culture
- December 18, 2018
This month marks one year since the FCC repealed the controversial net neutrality rules, officially killing the internet as we knew it forever—or so net neutrality proponents would have liked you to believe. But as we take a closer look at what has actually happened in the year since the rules have been abolished, we find that
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Guess What, Guys? Now You Can Have Periods, Too!0
- Culture
- December 18, 2018
Pretty much every guy knows to avoid the women in their life when it’s “that time of the month.” They might not understand it all, but they do know some practical survival tips: Tread carefully. Be understanding. Know that this, too, shall pass in a few days. It’s simple advice. But now there’s good news!
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Christmas 2018 by the Numbers0
- Culture
- December 18, 2018
As the most widely observed cultural holiday in the world, Christmas produces many things—joy, happiness, gratitude, reverence. And numbers. Lots of peculiar, often large, numbers. Here are a few to contemplate this season: $75 – Average amount U.S. consumers spent on real Christmas trees in 2017. $107 – Average amount U.S. consumers spent on fake Christmas trees
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Can America Fight Two Cold Wars at Once?0
- International
- December 18, 2018
Kim Jong-un, angered by new American sanctions, is warning that North Korea’s commitment to denuclearization could be imperiled and we could be headed for “exchanges of fire.” Iran, warns Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is testing ballistic missiles that are forbidden to them by the U.N. Security Council. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned
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Watch the Growth of the World’s 10 Largest Economies over the Last 60 Years0
- Economics
- December 17, 2018
In economics, GDP (gross domestic product) is defined as “the total value of goods produced and services provided” in a nation in a given year. If you’re not a student or teacher of economics, you probably don’t hear a lot about GDP unless it happens to be trending the wrong way and a nation finds
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Too Busy? You Might Have Action Bias.0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
The greeting starts out routine. You bump into a friend at the grocery store and they ask how you are. You find yourself thinking you aren’t that busy, at least, not enough to describe how you are. Things have settled down and work and family are status quo. Do you hesitate to say it… that
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