Opinion

I am a lifelong Illinoisan, and I have met my social contract.I’ve done everything properly.I’ve been law-abiding and I’ve been productive.And if I didn’t do these things, I would have been punishe[...]

When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800.You may not believe that, so feel free to look it up.If anyone had predicted that in a little more than four decades the D[...]

I have spent my life working on the water as acommercial fisherman.Today, I serve as the chairman and chief strategist of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association, (NEFSA) representing f[...]

As I make my way fromAlabamainto Mississippi on my Walk Across America, I’ve been thinking a lot about the chains that bind us.I’m not thinking of the visible chains of poverty, drugs and violence,[...]

Readers will always read, and news junkies will always find and especially read news.Reading is simply faster than broadcast, so news delivered by text is always going to have a market.That reality[...]

Trans fever has broken.All it took was a president with the guts to call out the evil being done to children across America and a shocking $2 million settlement awarded to a young girl whose body w[...]

In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure.In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp fami[...]

Neither party has put a stake in the ground on the issue that will drive the next presidential election cycle.Artificial intelligence is expected to transform the global economy at a dizzying pace,[...]

As someone who has spent decades training professional truck drivers, I take highway safety very seriously.America’s economy depends on a national freight network that moves goods through every sta[...]