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Are the thousands of illegal immigrant kids housed in detention facilities happy and well fed — or are they living in disease-infested compounds shrouded in secrecy? Well, it depends on who you ask. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seems to think the children coming across the southern …

Do not eat or drink in front of Muslims, and learn more about their religion. That’s the directive that has gone out to active duty military personnel at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a Department of Defense medical and graduate school in Bethesda, Md. The brigade commander …

It’s been 25 years since the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” – a landmark essay in American intellectual life that argued that the post-Cold War era would be one in which economic and political liberalism would increasingly rule the world’s roost. But with autocratic Russian and Chinese …

We’ve all heard that one type of energy or another is the “Bridge to the Future.” We’ve heard variously that it’s wind power, or solar power, or natural gas, or biofuels, or enhanced extraction methods, like hydraulic fracturing, or nuclear energy – and we’ve also heard that to get to …

I love Thanksgivingalmostas much as I love Christmas. There’s just something about the family time, and the official kickoff to the whole holiday season that feels extra cozy and magical. But with the start of the season also comes more pressure, higher expectations, and countless opportunities to spend crazy amounts …

The headlines about recent shark attacks on humans along the North Carolina coast have many people feeling frightened, even though such attacks are statistically rare. But the truth is that the world’s 450 species of sharks, most of which pose no danger to humans, have a lot more to fear …

The federal indictment against Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., of bribery is devastating. The senator enjoys the presumption of innocence, and an indictment only reflects the government’s side of the case, but the indictment contains a level of detail and a description of official acts taken by the senator that will …

Two significant shifts are changing America’s workforce as we’ve known it. First, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform everything about work.AI technologies-related job displacementpresents a major challenge to the American worker and it continues to disrupt our economy. Equally disruptive is our rapidly aging workforce. The U.S. Senate Special Committee …

Those who listen to my radio show or watch me on Fox News, are aware by now that I know more about basket-weaving than basketball; I’m just not a sports guy. But this week there was a story that, to me, transcends the sports world. The Brigham Young University basketball …

Now that the media have had their fun scaring us to the point of panic about the Japanese nuclear debacle, it’s time for a reality check. Certainly the news there is horrific enough, even when you factor out the damage done at the Fukushima nuclear facility. A 9.0 earthquake, perhaps …