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“This is junk food, Mommy.” That’s what my 6-year-old told me as he sat down to his pre-swimming lesson snack. I’d given him peanut butter pretzels, fruit snacks and a piece of leftover Halloween candy. “It’s bad for me, and I’ll get tired in a half-hour,” he went on, ...
In 1994, Republicans won a sweeping victory that cost Democrats control of the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. Republicans took an eye-popping 54 seats, leading many to conclude that this was a permanent political realignment. Two years later, Bill Clinton won reelection ...
Yes, Donald Trump took all seven battleground states and the electoral votes to go with them. This time he also won the popular vote, unlike in 2016. But let’s put all that in perspective. Trump took Wisconsin by less than one point. He won Michigan by only a point and a half. He did ...
Donald Trump won the election. The House and Senate are in Republican hands. That means the GOP now owns the debt and its consequences. This responsibility, while too much for past politicians, presents the opportunity of a lifetime: namely, to be the ones who put the government back on fiscal ...
The election is over. So where are we? The calendar says we’re in 2024. But the history books say 1924, give or take a few years. Under the Johnson-Reed Act, aka the Immigration Act of 1924, immigrants from Asia were banned. Entry into the U.S. by Jews and Catholics from Poland, Italy and ...
The biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thundered in on Election Day. Almost as if they conspired to make now-President-elect Donald Trump win, two are Democrats and two are Republicans. The four played distinct roles in a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. The first Horseman is, ...