There is scarcely a person alive who wouldn’t say that music makes life better. Almost all of us, on the order of 90 to 95 percent, listen to music every day. Globally, people listen to over 20 hours of music a week on average. Music is, without question, an indispensable part of life. But sometimes, …
The federal government will spend $7 trillion in 2025. That’s roughly $19 billion per day, or around $50 million in the time it takes to read this article. On the other side of the ledger, the government will collect $5.2 trillion in taxes. Careful readers will already see the problem. That $5.2 trillion dribbles …
September 21 is Deficit Day for 2025, something we have been calculating and talking about for some years now. What is it? From this point forward, for the rest of the year, the United States government will be spending money it does not have.
On this episode of Words & Numbers, Antony Davies and I talk about the clear problems that have emerged in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. When people are confident and comfortable in their public celebration of a young man’s death, something has gone horribly wrong. And if we don’t set things right, things will …
At Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning show on July 5th, rock royalty showed up to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at his retirement gig. Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian said it best: “We’re not here to say goodbye, we’re here to say thank you.” But as it turns out, they were there to say goodbye. …
Juneteenth combines “June” and “Nineteenth,” commemorating June 19, 1865, when the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, and General Gordon Granger announced to 250,000 enslaved men, women, and children that they were slaves no more.
We celebrate a number of holidays every year in the United States, and while each has its partisans, there aren’t many that get to the heart of who we are as a people. Indeed, few could. We manage to find the worst in each other in just about every aspect of public life, and we …
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