The national unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent in a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor today (Friday). That figure for the month of September is the lowest in decades. […]
Joblessness sinks to lowest since ’99
Lowry: Bernie Sanders and excess people
At least Bernie Sanders is an equal opportunity misanthrope. He doesn’t like rich people, and it turns out he doesn’t necessarily like poor people, either. At the recent CNN town hall on […]
Socialism and the 2020 election
There was Bernie Sanders at a Fox News Channel town hall, not giving an inch in a forum every Democratic presidential candidate has shunned. His reward was a cataract of good reviews, […]
Biden announces bid for White House
Former vice president Joe Biden made his much-anticipated entrance into the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Thursday. Biden, 76, launched his bid for the presidency using a Twitter post in which he […]
U.S. out of Pacific free trade deal
TRUMP WITHDRAWS USA FROM TPP In one of his first official acts as president, Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade arrangement championed by […]
$400 million not ransom, says Kerry
The $400 million in cash that the U.S. government gave to Iran was not ransom money, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday. The transfer occurred around the same time that a […]
Obama to speak at Demo convention
President Barack Obama will speak Wednesday on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Wednesday evening at the party’s convention in Philadelphia. His address comes after Clinton’s history-making victory in the Democratic […]
Hillary Clinton to be Democratic nominee
The history-making nomination of Hillary Clinton as the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major American political party is on the docket of Tuesday’s session of the Democratic National […]
Democratic convention opens today
The 2016 Democratic National Convention opens Monday in Philadelphia against a backdrop of embarrassment and anxiety. Leaked e-mails indicate that some leaders of the Democratic National Committee worked to oppose the candidacy […]
