At least Michael Bloomberg gave it a try. Having done poorly in a prior debate, he joked during the Charleston, S.C., debate that he was surprised the other candidates showed up – because he “did such a good job beating them last week.” His poorly timed attempt at humor was ridiculed on social media. So […]

Mud season is upon us. This year, with particularly wet warm conditions and little remaining snow, it can be difficult to find places to get outside where you don’t need a combination of muck boots and crampons. Going to the beach may not be the first thing you think of in March, but beaches are […]

We need a little balance here, folks. Michael Reagan’s column, “Sick of the Media Hype,” was spot on. He notes that during the 2017-2018 flu season, “80,000 Americans – older, younger, sicker Americans died.” He continues:  “Do you remember the scary media stories, the doomsday predictions, the panic in the streets, the stock market crash […]

The spread of the new coronavirus, which has infected over 80,000 people worldwide and resulted in the death of more than 3,000, has raised alarms around the world. At the same time, the seasonal influenza, known as the flu, causes severe illness in between 3 million and 5 million people, with hundreds of thousands of […]

For almost a year, politicians in Washington have talked about the need to fix the problem of surprise medical billing. But, per usual, they haven’t done anything about it. It shouldn’t be this hard. To review: the bidding – surprise billing, as people call it – occurs when a person with health insurance gets a […]

Sometimes, when we’re trying to look ahead, we must first look back. Just over a century ago, Progressive reformers wrested control of nominations for high elective office away from the party bosses – in their literally “smoke-filled rooms” – and vested it in the people, who would choose candidates through primary elections. In a bold […]

Two weeks ago, I was happily sailing on a huge cruise ship in the Indian Ocean. My wife Collen is a travel agent and I was tagging along with her and her group on a Celebrity Cruise Line ship as it sailed from Dubai to Singapore and back with 2,300 souls aboard. Everyone on board […]