Of course, every family is different—both in terms of what they can afford and what brings them joy. But there are some things every family should consider when deciding how to pass wealth from one ge

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look differe

Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he began to feel…

Is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) inevitable? Not exactly. I do see him continuing to rise. But if he pulls in up to 30,000 in Oregon and Los Angeles during the long hot summer and wows them at the Iowa

Margaret E. Atwood Jul 27, 2015 · 27 min read By Margaret Atwood Animations by Carl Burton Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, th

On the morning of June 30, 2012, the line of black Suburbans outside the Mandarin Oriental hotel, on Manhattan’s Columbus Circle, was longer than usual. The drivers waited for their passengers: out-of

We’re about four years into this blog, and at this point I finally have to admit I am a complete and total fraud. I mean sure, I saved enough to retire in just nine years and have had a great time run

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This is a moment at which anyone with the capacity for reflection should stop and wonder what we are doing. If the news that in the past 40 years the world has lost over 50% of its vertebrate wildlife

I told you that the Discovery Institute really hates Cosmos . On Sunday night, Jay Richards, Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, Ph.D. in philosophy and theology, former instructor in apologetics

You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more. If we do our job well, the economy thrives; if fo

On April 12, 2006, Governor Mitt Romney, of Massachusetts, signed the most significant bill of his career: a law requiring every citizen in his state to buy health insurance. Romney usually held signing ceremonies in the gold-domed State House, in Boston. But this time his political team, which was…

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