Admit it, you’ve never stopped to wonder how the United States gained the Pacific island of Guam, have you? There’s no reason to. It doesn’t come up at dinner party conversations. And they certainly didn’t teach it in school. Guam wasn’t seized in some great battle or handed over ...
My husband joined the Navy in March 1999, and within 30 months we were engulfed in a war that would last the rest of his military career. When his ship pulled out of New York Harbor on 9/11, I never dreamed that we would still be at war when he retired in November 2020. For nearly 20 years, ...
To say that the Federal Reserve is between a rock and a hard place is an understatement. Markets want a halt to inflation, but they don’t want a full-fledged recession or sustained drop in economic activity. Households and consumers want their dollars to stretch further and not be ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light a myriad of healthcare challenges and inadequacies. Most notably, as mental health needs surge, accessible and affordable mental health services are nearly impossible to find. This has been a problem for decades, but as COVID-19 continues to linger, ...
Everyone wants to do “what is right for the environment.” But what about when the proposed solution is worse than the supposed problem? In April, Wegmans, a regional supermarket chain with 107 stores, announced that it is eliminating plastic shopping bags from all of its locations by the ...
A day after reports that more than 2 million migrants had illegally crossed the U.S. southern border already this fiscal year — a record — former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the flood of fentanyl across the border “an act of war” and another sign of the “waffling, weak” ...
