The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn’t imagine that.
What I’ve come to believe is that psychological advice isn’t worth much if it isn’t rooted in personal experience.
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don’t save very much.
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he’d support.
The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.
What people want is big government that they don’t have to pay for.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there’s always the word of the Iraqis themselves.
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
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