Fifty years ago last week, a seminal moment in history was off many Americans’ radar. This was the era before cable news and the Internet, so the only view most had of the event was on the evening news and in the daily newspaper the next day. Even then, Martin Luther King Jr.’s address during […]

Federal officials say expectations for an above-average hurricane season remain, and that’s good enough reason to be prepared for major storms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s recently updated forecast calls for 13 to 19 named storms this year, of which six to nine are to become hurricanes, with three to five of those becoming […]

Please, not again. Yet there it was in a news report: Finding of strong evidence that the regime in Syria used chemical weapons against its own people raises chances of “a U.S. military strike.” It would not be a major incursion, administration officials said. Just a little war, a few cruise missiles aimed at strategic […]

Why don’t we learn from financial crises? As Asian currencies fall and crisis strikes, we seem to be making the same mistakes made in the ’90s. The rupiah is falling! Head for the hills! On second thought, keep calm and carry on. In case you’re wondering, the rupiah is the national currency of Indonesia, and, […]