To be born a Jew is to be born with a target on your back. You go to the same movies others do. Enjoy similar foods, although — if you play by the rules — you restrict yourself to kosher…

This Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to advance the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act. The brainchild of Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), its purported aim is to reduce health care costs. But history…

With inflation raging and the shadow of recession looming, it’s difficult to envision a worse time to pass a tax-and-spend bill like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Yet, that’s just what Senate Democrats did Sunday. It’s even harder to imagine…

I lived in Vermont for four years some 35 years ago, and now I’m a Vermont watcher. The place in the 1980s was certainly liberal, center-left with a small radical fringe. There were conservative Republicans, multi-generational New Englanders who exuded…

Press conferences have gone from feverishly adversarial under Trump to dull and idle under Biden. He faced few difficult questions until the end of the interminable press conference on Wednesday when he finally moved off his sheet of approved questioners….

In the 2020 presidential election, Millennials, those born between 1981-1996, and Gen Z, those born between 1997-2012, made up a larger share of the electorate than Baby Boomers by a sizable margin: 38 percent compared to 28 percent. By the 2024 election,…

A Fox News article from Sunday night illuminated something which has been readily apparent just under the surface of the internecine legislative war the Democrats staged for the final couple months of 2021. All of the attention had focused on…

During the brutal war on the Eastern Front from 1941-1945, both Germany and Russia reportedly used people as human mine detectors, forcing them into areas sown with anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. If an individual was fortunate enough to find a…