Darrell Issa: America’s Poor Have It Pretty Good, Actually
Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.
Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.
The sources of new immigrants to the United States are changing, but it’s unclear if that will have any impact on the political debate over immigration reform.
While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.
The price of oil is continuing to fall, but it won’t last forever.
Some are criticizing the President for not going to Paris for yesterday’s rally.
Russia’s own government is projecting that its economy will slip into recession next year. How that will impact Putin’s current belligerence remains to be seen.
Vladimir Putin’s reception at the G-20 Summit in Australia has been less than warm thanks to recent events in Ukraine.
Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.
America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.
Trending on Twitter this morning is a collection of infographics compiled by Ezra Klein under the heading “22 maps and charts that will surprise you.”
Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.
A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.
George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.
A piece at Foreign Policy provides a chance to give some thought to institutions.
More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.
The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.
The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.
The I Went To The Animal Fair Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
We spend more per capita than any other country in the world and yet we are outperformed on a key metric, life expectancy, by a large number of countries
Robert Kagan warns of “a changing world order.” But he’s grasping at rather thin straws.
China’s Communist Party has announced a significant change to the nation’s infamous “One Child” policy.
Signs of some progress in the talks over Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Managers want their employees to get off email and pick up the phone.
The Pentagon is considering doing away with two combatant commands—and no longer calling them combatant commands.
Evidence that George Zimmerman acted out of racial bias is completely lacking, which means the Federal Government should stay out of this case entirely.
The blowback from yesterday’s revelations about U.S. surveillance on European allies continues.
The latest NSA leaks are likely to prove to be diplomatically embarrassing.
Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.