by Cynthia M. Allen In an election cycle that can only be described as stranger than fiction, things have just gotten impossibly weirder. Longtime Democrat-turned-independent candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race and endorsed none other than Donald ...
by Virginia Postrel If you left the U.S. for a summer vacation, you may have encountered a strange and refreshing custom: not tipping. Or at least not tipping everyone in sight. Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers. “We tip more occupations than any ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf When Kamala Harris first sought the presidency in 2019, she leaned left, backing Medicare for all, urging a ban on the oil recovery process known as fracking, praising the “defund the police” movement. But as the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee, ...
Political candidates are fond of more — more votes, more campaign contributions, more media coverage, more time to talk and more words. Rarely does a politician subscribe to the advice of Spartan politician and philosopher Chilon who is credited with the proverb, “less is more.” That ...
How is it possible that the Teamsters still haven’t made an official presidential endorsement? Really, are they going to choose Donald Trump, who conned them into believing he’d help save their pensions? Or Kamala Harris, whose boss, Joe Biden, actually did — and to the tune of $36 ...
The good news is that business interests are getting support during an election year. The bad news is that the business is crypto. Less than two years after the industry’s highest-profile political donor was exposed as a criminal, the lure of campaign donations from the digital-money crowd ...