Old-Age Poverty

Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., call for socialism has resonated among many Americans, particularly young Americans. They’ve fallen prey to the idea of a paradise here on Earth where things are free and there’s little want. But socialists never reveal what turns out to be their true agenda. Let’s look at…

Senator Bernie Sanders’ call for socialism has resonated among many Americans, particularly young Americans. They’ve fallen prey to the idea of a paradise here on Earth where things are free and there’s little want. But socialists never reveal what turns out to be their true agenda. Let’s look at the…

Imran Khan advise­s agains­t panic; urges intern­ationa­l commun­ity to consid­er writin­g off loans to develo­ping countr­ies PM Imran Khan. PHOTO: PID ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday warned that the government feared the spread of coronavirus in the country, but asked people not to panic, as the national tally of…

This is the second in a five-part series exploring the trauma at the heart of the relationship between a small Canadian town and the First Nations people who live in and around it. Read the first part - The Back Streeters and the White Boys: Racism in rural Canada -…

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced plans for what he called "the Great Society," a sweeping set of programs that would represent the most ambitious and far-reaching expansion of the federal government since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Johnson declared war on poverty, jacked up federal spending on education, and…

Apropos the editorial, “Not a time to panic” (March 13), it is imperative to take action against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic but we are fearing an apocalypse and reacting accordingly in sheer madness. Conferences and public events have been cancelled, weddings postponed and schools have been closed fearing the spread…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The coronavirus is much, much more dangerous for the elderly than the young. A epidemiological study released several weeks ago by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention that found an overall Covid-19 case-fatality rate of 2.3% put the rate at 3.6% for those 60 to 69, 8% for those…

Coronavirus is accomplishing in a matter of weeks what Democrats’ Green New Deal could only hope to do. Crushing capitalism, putting the oil and gas industry into panic, ending travel, and controlling population would all be deliberate consequences of the radical Green New Deal. So its supporters—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen.…

I don’t generally buy into the “greedy-geezer” narrative when it comes to entitlement reform. And yet it’s hard to find a flattering description for a generation that demands to receive Social Security benefits that it refused to pay for. That’s in fact what happened over the past 30 years and…

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