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Student loans are a special kind of debt. They are an investment to increase someone’s future earnings, though they must be paid back before most of those earnings are realized. Most of the loans are directly from the government, which not so long ago was telling borrowers they wouldn’t have to pay them back, and didn’t require them to. They are among the few kinds of debt that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. They also have one of the highest rates of default.
In January, the Trump administration released new dietary guidelines for Americans, calling for children to avoid any added sugar until age 11. It was the most ambitious stance on children’s sugar intake in at least a decade and a recognition of how seriously added sugar is harming kids’ health.
FIFA looked across the Atlantic Ocean every March as college basketball teams competed in the “madness” that is the NCAA Tournament and felt that twinge of jealousy every other sports entity does.
I love President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair. I love its emptiness. Its expensive food. Its ability to confound Trump-friendly media outlets that keep pretending it’s going great.
My 16-year-old daughter, Becky Pepper-Jackson, wants what most kids want: to be herself and play the sport she loves with her friends. As a transgender girl, that simple wish took her all the way to the Supreme Court, where the justices ruled that our home state of West Virginia can bar her from playing school sports with her friends and peers. I always knew that no matter what the court decided, Becky would be a winner because she has shown all of us how to love, accept and be ourselves no matter the outcome.
If you need a reason why the U.S. Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision in two cases preserving fairness in girls’ and women’s sports is so important, look to California.
The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, concluded that “citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights − to freely participate in our political community.”
Those wondering why Vice President JD Vance is heading the team negotiating the final peace settlement with Iran should recall how President Donald Trump’s television hit, “The Apprentice,” always ended. Finalists were assigned a complicated task, helped out by a team of former contestants, to complete to the boss’s satisfaction.
The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington has turned pea green with algal growth — as shallow bodies of still water tend to do in summer when temperatures rise. President Trump’s $14-million no-bid “American flag blue” paint job was never going to stop that. It may in fact have contributed, as being darker than the previous pool bottom it absorbs heat more readily. Algal blooms ...
New York City is having a once-in-a-lifetime summer, and Republicans across the country are horrified. Guess it’s a good thing that many don’t live here.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson launched Head Start 61 years ago, he called it one of the most constructive and sensible programs ever undertaken by the U.S. government. Today, it provides free learning and development programs to nearly 800,000 low-income kids from birth to age 5. Head Start is a vital resource that serves two generations at the same time: vulnerable young children and their ...
President Donald Trump, in a tantrum that would make a 3-year-old blush, kneecapped his own party and canceled an affordable housing bill signing Wednesday, saying it “pales in comparison” with an election bill. The one that would benefit one person: Donald Trump.
“Eat real food,” the slogan behind the USDA’s new food pyramid, has been one of the most popular, bipartisan ideas hammered home by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary. But the administration Kennedy serves is making it more expensive for families to do that. Grocery prices are 26% higher than they were five years ago, according to Labor Department data. Much of this ...
The kids aren’t all right – at least, according to politicians.
The journalistic adage “we don’t report planes that land safely” means that what is deemed newsworthy often involves dysfunction and folly. Now, however, comes evidence that “good news” is not always an oxymoron. A judicial ruling has prompted two senators to prod the legislative branch to curtail certain executive branch mischief.
SpaceX’s initial public offering made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. You might think there’s not much you can buy with a hundred (or a thousand) billion dollars that you can’t buy with one billion dollars. But there is: absolute power.
Quentin Tarantino has said that he will retire after he makes his next film. (Whatever that film turns out to be; the upcoming “The Adventures of Cliff Booth” was written by Tarantino but directed by David Fincher, so it doesn’t count.) Tarantino’s reason for this tends to change with every interview – Tarantino talks a lot – but his primary impetus seems to be: He thinks filmmakers get worse when they get old. “I know film history, and from here on in, filmmakers do not get better,” he said in 2021. He was 58.
The good news about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turning greener than Kermit the Frog’s keester is President Donald Trump finally has a swamp to drain.
Way back on March 6, not long after President Donald Trump hurled America into the dumbest war imaginable, our Nobel-Peace-Prize-deficient leader declared on social media: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
The First Amendment needs all the help it can get these days. Many progressives want restrictions on “hate speech,” while Democrats weren’t shy about pushing private companies to censor “misinformation” during the pandemic. Meanwhile the FCC under a Republican president has threatened to use its licensing authority to punish broadcasters over perceived political slights. It is against this ...
