For the next 10 months, we’re all to be subjected to nonstop political ads filled with promises, half-truths and outright lies. Unfortunately, too many people have surrendered their common sense to put their trust into political leaders whose campaigns…
It’s a new year and perhaps the first time in modern history where our hopes and expectations for a great year are replaced with a greater anxiety for what’s in store for us. Will it bring more war? A…
Overnight, there was word that Russia unleashed the biggest air attack on Ukraine since they first started this ego-driven war. It’s no surprise. Putin knows Ukraine’s defense is weakening thanks to the House GOP antics and irrational thinking that…
Readers of my daily news roundup recall the theme for yesterday’s posting was immigration and one solution to this global phenomena. Well now, there’s data showing explicitly what industry can benefit with an influx of immigrant labor — now;…
California-based Pizza Hut franchisees announced they were laying off all their delivery drivers. Why? Because of the state’s new $20 minimum wage increase. It’s no secret that small businesses, and some big businesses, rely on ‘cheap’ labor. Why do…
We’ve been raised on the nationalistic ideal that the United States is the greatest country on the planet. Our excellence in science and innovation, enforcement of democratic principles, equal opportunity economy and ‘unmatched’ quality of life have always served…
Merry Christmas! While this is a day universally celebrated for peace, love and being with family, the sad fact is that in too many pockets of the world none of this exists. We first saw it in Ukraine, now…
Indigenous beliefs have long included how humankind is interconnected with nature and one another. When nature is ‘ill,’ it follows that we all are. So, a new study is startling in its findings on just how connected we really…
Diversity, equity and inclusion have the best hope of surviving GOP attacks if more of us incorporate it into our daily lives without a conscious effort. In fact, the majority of us are already doing it. A new Pew…
Tech layoffs continue at a steady pace. Yet, new research shows that AI is what will drive the racial wealth gap even higher. The clear problem has two caveats: The AI sector (a.k.a. tech) still doesn’t have enough diversity…
We’ve long heard that the Christmas season, along with winter, trigger depression and anxiety in many people. Given continuing layoffs across the country, the uptick in homelessness and food insecurity, increasing global violence and next year’s presidential election, along…
Over the weekend, the Biden administration declared operations at two rail crossings would be suspended at the US-Mexico border due to the rise in migrants. US border states are feeling the economic pinch of servicing so many who continue…
Politics can’t help but be partisan these days given how diametrically opposed both parties’ guiding principles are and their concept of democracy. The bigger question for voters in 2024 is which party will uphold our democracy and all the…
Global tensions continue to accelerate and nowhere is that clearer than in the Asian region. China and Russia continue to join forces in joint ‘military’ exercises(?) that beg the analysis of what they’re up to; In the meantime, former…
When talking about a political divide in the country, the implication is that it refers to the choice of US president. However, the political divide goes much deeper than that. It has infiltrated our public schools (book banning), women’s…
House GOP are driving a hard bargain to get their demands on border security from the White House. Basically pledging no talks about more aid to Ukraine unless restrictions at the US-Mexico border are enforced leaves Ukraine in a…
Three weeks left till the end of the year and while the economic outlook doesn’t alarm too many economists these days, the rest of us are seeing our household budgets not just being squeezed but, for those who have…
You know the quality of life for many in the United States is deteriorating when a US court grants a temporary reprieve from an unforgiving abortion ban to a Texas woman, who has a fatal condition that has already…
Gun violence is an unnecessary evil of life living in the United States. It’s unnecessary because we wouldn’t have daily reports of gun violence if we had common sense gun laws. We only have to look at other countries…
There seems to be little hope for changing the course of the planet’s climate future from what we’re seeing at the COP28 climate summit. At this point, breaking climate records each month and countries not living up to past…
Whether you blame it on the pandemic, social media or bad parenting, the fact, according to a new global study, is that U.S. students are failing in math compared to their global peers — and that’s a big deal….
For the economy to improve, the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that more people must lose their jobs. Even a casual scan of the site dailyjobcuts.com reveals the breadth of what businesses across the country are doing to…
There are a number of reasons why people feel they must leave their countries and find new homes elsewhere. Usually, it’s for one or more of these four reasons: love, better job opportunities, peace or freedom. The disdain nationalists…
It used to be that parents had a tighter reign on what kind of music their children listened to. A new study discovers that they were right to do it; China is experiencing a renewed respiratory outbreak that is…
The images from Gaza are devastating. The loss of buildings, lives and a way of life make the thought of rebuilding a distant thought, if it exists at all. Yet, amid all the destruction, lies a bigger fear —…
