More than 2 million Texans were left without clean drinking water after a treatment facility power outage in Houston. It was the third time that Houstonians were boiling water to brush their teeth in three years. And while the outage undoubtedly caused stress at the end of a holiday weekend, ...
During the Trump administration, the United States imposed “maximum pressure” on the Venezuelan government of Socialist thug Nicolas Maduro. This policy involved tightening economic sanctions and a seeming attempt to help overthrow his corrupt and oppressive government. Unfortunately, but ...
National leaders can change lives for good or bad. Never more so than authoritarians. Vladimir Putin stands out in this assessment — a dictator who continues to harm his country disastrously. Experts have clearly shown that Russia’s prime minister is obsessed, some might say ...
This year we saw a midterm election system that was a record-breaker in political spending — to the tune of more than $16.7 billion. Our political discourse is replete with concerns about money’s influence, including “dark money” in elections. But what’s important to remember is the ...
A long-awaited review of the Food and Drug Administration’s Human Foods Program, partly funded by the FDA, is out. The conclusion from the Reagan-Udall Foundation is that the FDA is a great deal for consumers and would be a much better deal if the agency had a lot more money and power. As the ...
The Yankee cavalryman had no idea what lay in store when he raised his sword that Easter Sunday afternoon. How could he? All he knew was he had a job to do. So, he lifted his arm and prepared to strike. What happened next triggered a chain of events that culminated in creating one of the most ...