Month: May 2012

In the universe of individual debt, student loans now take a back seat to nothing. It is estimated that student debt in the US now exceeds One Trillion Dollars, a figure that approaches the federal deficit and exceeds...

I’m fascinated by the way Mitt Romney has become a proud, unabashed moral relativist. It used to be that politicians dissociated themselves from supporters or staffers who said or did unsavory things because they wanted to...

Fortunately, money isn’t everything, but still… Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S....

Clarence Page: Activists were elated when Obama acknowledged that legalization was “an entirely legitimate topic for debate” — the first time a sitting president has made such a statement, according to Ethan...

I watched the video of the president handing out Medals of Freedom. I was most interested to see the interaction between the president and Bob Dylan, and there are some pretty hilarious still-shots of that. Jan Karski is dead,...