I learned one of life’s most important lessons from my mother’s second husband in 1979. He thought it would be a good idea to bet me money that the Pittsburgh Pirates would beat my beloved Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. He didn’t care for the Pirates. He was more concerned with enriching my upbringing. I know this because of [Read More]

Remember that time the Tea Party Republicans in Congress almost forced the United States to default on its debt obligations by refusing to raise the debt ceiling? Remember how the government’s inability to, well, govern drove Standard & Poor’s to downgrade our credit rating for the first time ever? Good times. The grownups—President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, and [Read More]