Last month, President Donald Trump proudly announced, "Liberation Day! ... The day American industry was reborn!" Reborn because of his tariffs, which he called, "the most beautiful word in the dictionary." This is just wrong. The first time he was president, Trump raised tariffs on steel. ...
It seems natural for us to wonder what might live outside of our own neighborhoods. We imagine mythological creatures in deep woods and we search for systems of life in deep ocean trenches. And once we realized that each pinhole of light puncturing our dark sky is a physical place, it became ...
“Hey, do you guys like the Everly Brothers?” We aren’t expecting that. But as we sit in an endless line of stopped cars, the question floats to us from a young fellow sitting in the back seat of a car facing the other direction. Both lanes are jammed, a collective of carloads of trapped ...
I don't know if you've heard already, but there's a new pope in town. Not only is he American — the first U.S.-born head of the Catholic Church — but he's also from Chicago, which is close enough to where I live to have sent a thrill of victory through me when I heard the ...
Don't be fooled by the name — what a bill claims to do and what it actually does are often very different. That's certainly the case with the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act." While the IRA promised savings for Americans, what we've seen instead are higher premiums, reduced access for ...
Each spring, as tassels are turned and degrees are conferred, college graduates across the country celebrate the culmination of years of study, sacrifice and — inevitably for many — debt. Against this backdrop, the idea of student loan forgiveness is touted by many as a compassionate and ...
