After five frenzied weeks, our friends in the United Kingdom have a new prime minister, Rishi Sunak. Maybe he’ll prove less crazy than the others, maybe not. But why should we care? Shouldn’t we just worry about our own uniquely American brand of crazy? If only it were that simple. The ...
Joseph R. Nolan, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Eversource, received nearly $6.5 million in compensation last year. Or, at least, so says the 2022 annual proxy statement of the region’s biggest utility empire. His recently retired predecessor, Executive Chairman James J. ...
For those who serve in the military, that is the ultimate bonding time: Camaraderie beyond imagining and sharing beyond compare. Laughing, fearing, hurting, hoping, and, sometimes, dying together. A time when the future is just a day ahead, a command away and, if in combat, a time when death ...
The pushback against Environmental, Social and Governance has begun. It’s coming from market influencers like Vivek Ramaswamy, cultural influencers like Dilbert creator Scott Adams lambasting it in his (banned) comic strips, and 19 Republican governors going after the banks that push it. ...
It was 1998—the year I turned 21 years old and close to the exact moment the ship I was deployed on entered the waters of the Persian Gulf. At the time, it was the most significant military build-up in U.S. history since Desert Storm. My mission was to lead a group of Marines in recovering ...
It had been building for weeks. Americans could talk about little else, the tension and anxiety growing daily as the stakes climbed ever higher. The answer finally came on Nov. 8 and the country heaved a huge sigh of relief, glad that it was finally over. One lucky person in California had ...
