President Biden and former President Trump are tied in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Friday. Biden and Trump each garnered 44 percent support from Michigan voters, while eight percent said they would vote for someone else and five percent said they are undecided. However, the poll...
A growing share of working Americans don’t think they will ever retire, recent surveys suggest. Retirement is a time-honored life stage and a near-universal expectation in working America. Yet, a comfortable retirement requires savings, and many workers fear they don’t have enough. In a July poll conducted jointly by Axios and Ipsos, 29 percent of...
The Department of Energy filed a notice this week updating how much it projects consumers will save under proposed gas stove regulations it proposed earlier this year.
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
When I was a teenager — and it’s none of your business when, exactly, that was — there was one unmistakable way to let someone know that you liked them. And when I say “liked” I mean liked liked. (That’s how we put it. We would say: “Do you like her? I mean, do you like her like her?” Or: “I, like, really like him. Like, like him like him.”) The way you communicated this, especially if you were a boy, was to make the object of your affection a mixtape.
More than 300,000 German civilians were killed by Allied strategic bombing in World War II. It was thought that it would break the German economy, but when U.S. economists surveyed its material consequences, they found, to their surprise, that it had impeded German industry only very little. Strategic bombing was, in the words of J.K. Galbraith, “perhaps the greatest miscalculation of the war.” The fact that little was gained by it should compound our horror, though, in the scope of the war and the emotions at play, it rarely does.
After months of bipartisan pressure from Colorado’s congressional delegation, President Joe Biden finally decided this week to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs, a decision that provides much-needed stability and continuity to a mission facing imminent threats from China and Russia.