CNN journalist Jim Acosta recently grilled Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate, about his decision to leave the Democratic Party and start the Forward Party. Acosta didn’t pull any punches: “Is this an attempt to pump up book sales?” he asked, noting how Yang’s new ...
Every day, corporate America has launched a new initiative that reasonably could be described as “woke.” At first glance, this wokeness doesn’t seem so bad. Doesn’t America have a history of racism, discrimination and injustice? Don’t these persist? Shouldn’t we seek to remedy ...
The United Kingdom’s leading anti-smoking organization, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), has released a report detailing the use of vaping products in England, Scotland and Wales. The report is based on a survey of 13,000 adults and has been widely publicized in British media. ASH ...
Standing in a checkout line on a recent trip to my local grocery store got my old brain churning and thinking about life long before bar codes, scanners, and charge cards. I recall the days when we would shop at a much smaller store, as there were no mega-stores, warehouse stores or super ...
Last week, we joined with millions of other sports fans in watching Serena Williams play the final match of her dazzling tennis career at the US Open. We ooh’d and ahh’d as she served up eleven aces to her opponent’s three, adding to her record stockpile of 4,131 acessince 2008 alone. ...
Each year around this time, a significant portion of my fellow Nashua baby boomers had already cleared that first-day-of-school hurdle – the day pretty much all kids habitually dread for no good reason other than being told to switch to long pants, dresses and socks and sneakers – and were ...
