As we approach another anniversary of our nation's birth, it's become increasingly difficult to recall what we're celebrating and, indeed, to visualize our "indivisible" republic itself...

In the depths of the Great Recession, the Obama administration found itself looking for any signs of life in the economy, which they called "green shoots." Small businesses and startups are the crocuses of economic recovery, but today it's not only the economy that's looking...

Not Necessarily the News was a satirical HBO comedy series that ran from 1983 to 1990. As seems so often the case these days, what was thought to be a comedy has turned out to be, in title at least, a forecast instead...

When Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, his successor declared "our long national nightmare" over, but while Watergate fed a cancer of cynicism weakening our will to act, few were as directly affected by it as they've been by gun violence, the bad dream from which...

If there's anything we should have learned from the past three-plus decades, it's the importance of character in our leaders. Now that nothing appears to be disqualifying, it's up to we, the people, to rebuild our national values...

For decades, small business policy has been reactionary, endeavoring only to patch up cracks in the Main Street facade, rather than treat start-ups and mom and pops like the powerful futuristic growth engine they can be and truly are...

The answer to the Bermuda Triangle question of macroeconomics: how mom-and-pops and start-ups created nearly two-thirds of new jobs in our country over the last quarter-century+, yet still employ less than half our workforce...

Ron DeSantis believes he stands in the doorway of Florida schools and other institutions, forbidding indoctrination to pass. We think he projecteth too much...