Citizens Journal

For decades, Americans have built their lives around one guarantee — work hard, pay into Social Security, and retire with dignity. Now that promise is being tested. What began as rumor has become an official policy discussion: the government is considering raising the Social Security retirement age to extend the life of the program’s rapidly shrinking trust fund.

For most of history, people’s biggest problems concerned adequate food, clothing, and shelter. Life resembled Thomas Hobbes’s description of the state of nature: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Today, we have, if anything, the opposite problem: we have so much food, clothing, and shelter that we pay professionals to help us manage it all.

By Katelynn Richardson A Biden judicial nominee under fire for ties to an anti-Israel group is now facing a call by the conservative watchdog American Accountability Foundation (AAF) to withdraw for failing to disclose the sources of his income.

(The Center Square) – Mexican cartels for decades have devised creative ways to smuggle narcotics and other contraband across the southern U.S., including using produce, law enforcement officials say. This month, in one week, thousands of pounds of meth were seized hidden in shipments of peppers, tomatillos and carrots.

Inflation picked up in January, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at a continuously compounding annual rate of 4.1 percent in the first month of the year. The PCEPI has grown at an annualized rate of 1.8 percent over the last three months and 2.5 percent over the last six months.

What do you want, a nice pair of gold sneakers or a scented candle? Donald Trump is a businessman. He hires people that do business with other businesses and the public. That’s how businesses are supposed to work, developing an economy. Trump recently introduced a new line of signature shoes at Sneaker Con. Trump says, “This is something I’ve been talking about for 12 years, 13 years and I think it is going to be a big success.” This venture will employ people to make and sell shoes.

Almost since its inception, the North American Free Trade Agreement has generated controversy far out of proportion to its economic consequences. From Ross Perot’s 1992 warning that NAFTA would create a “giant sucking sound” of jobs flowing to Mexico to Barack Obama’s (and Hillary Clinton’s) campaign trail threat to pull out of the agreement to Donald Trump’s 2016 description of it as a “disaster,” criticism of the trade deal has been a near-constant feature of American politics.

There are many dire threats facing America right now. Open borders have allowed millions of unvetted migrants from all over the world to flood our country, bringing in not just wildly out-of-control violent crime, but populating endless terrorist sleeper cells. Inflation is still spiking, and wages aren’t keeping up. Home ownership is out of reach for an entire generation.

By Harold Hutchison Constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz ripped Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee Friday over his ruling about whether Fani Willis should be thrown off the case against former President Donald Trump. McAfee ruled that Willis must either step aside or remove Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor Willis hired to prosecute the Trump case, saying there was an appearance of a conflict of interest stemming from their romantic relationship.

It’s popular within the academy and fashionable intellectual circles to blame rich Westerners for global poverty, or rich Americans for national poverty. Rich people shoulder a lot of the blame for poverty, but not for the reasons you might think. It’s worth revisiting why rich Westerners share so much blame for poverty. It’s not because we have high standards of living.