[ad_1] American business ties and travel to Cuba reached their highest point in decades between 2015 and 2017. Last year, the Trump administration issued rules to limit some, but not all, of that travel and trade. In 2018, as Cuba prepares for a historic leadership change, Ambassador Philip Goldberg, the newly arrived, interim charge d’affaires
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[ad_1] Luigi Zingales provides a window onto news illiteracy, or at least social media’s penchant for the provocative over the reasoned. Zingales is an economist at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, whose main floor walls are lined with a photographic Murderer’s Row of Nobel laureates (nine, actually) in economics. You
[ad_1] Daily Cartoons: February 22, 2018 [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] CHICAGO – Having grown up in Lockport, Illinois, I always remember the start of tornado season. In elementary school, beside the run-of-the-mill fire-drills, we’d duck-and-cover on the outskirts of hallways to prepare for sirens signaling an impending potential natural disaster. Now I am a high school teacher-librarian in Englewood on the South Side of
[ad_1] Last month, the Diocese of Memphis announced it would cease operations of Jubilee Catholic Schools, a network serving more than 1,400 of the city’s disadvantaged students. Jubilee had become financially unsustainable. The diocese didn’t have the money to keep the schools afloat, and the low-income families they served couldn’t pay the tuition necessary to
[ad_1] The Parkland shooting has galvanized people across the country to demand that elected officials do something about gun violence besides just think and pray about it. The signs aren’t promising. Can anything be done? Sure – but probably not by politicians. Governments everywhere are growing in impotence due to a host of tectonic global
[ad_1] Roughly 13,000 Americans are killed by a gun in a homicide every year (this does not include the more than 20,000 Americans who commit suicide using a gun every year). Let’s put that in perspective. During the deadliest year for Americans of the Vietnam War in 1968, 16,899 Americans died. During the Korean War,
[ad_1] To be filed under the heading of things you won’t hear anyone in the Pentagon say: “Less is more.” Because when it comes to spending on Department of Defense priorities, more is always more but somehow never quite enough. The recently enacted Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 established how badly lawmakers and the White