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finances
A couple of recent reports illustrate just how dire the United States federal government's debt situation really is. The federal government took in a record $2.9 trillion in tax revenues for the first 11 months of the fiscal year (through the end of August), up about 7.
sanctuary city
The shooting last month by an illegal immigrant of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms on a San Francisco pier, has focused the nation's attention on so-called "sanctuary cities" — local jurisdictions that, as a matter of policy, refuse to comply with
NewBostonPost
In America today, too many people believe that work is drudgery — that only certain kinds of employment are ennobling or provide fulfillment. The notion that "hamburger-flipping" jobs and other kinds of low paying work lack value (popularly expressed during the presidential election of 1988 and reinforced by the
Donald Trump
The first presidential primary votes won't be cast until January, and the Republicans won't nominate their candidate until July. Although almost anything can happen between now and then, most of the remaining 15 GOP presidential hopefuls probably already realize they don't have a serious
Catholic
The eyes of the world will be on Pope Francis as he arrives in Cuba on Saturday to begin the first leg of his apostolic journey to North America. That the pontiff plans to visit the hemisphere's only one-party communist country just before he arrives in the U.
NewBostonPost
For more than one hundred years, from 1856 to 1956, the Boston Post was this city's largest daily newspaper. Founded in 1831 by Boston businessmen Charles G. Greene and Williams Beals, the paper was later sold to Edwin Grozier who, along with his son Richard, built it into
Barack Obama
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich to meet with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. There, Chamberlain and other European nations signed the Munich Pact, forcing Czechoslovakia, which was not invited to the talks, to cede the Sudetenland to Germany. The Munich Pact was Britain's
Massachusetts
During the last several years, there has been a growing chorus from progressive politicians and intellectuals about income inequality in America. Numerous books and studies purport to show that the American dream of economic mobility is now an illusion — that movement up the economic ladder is difficult, if not impossible.
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