Text messaging has become one of the most widely-used and trusted communication platforms in the U.S. with more than 4 in 5 Americans texting regularly and 5.5 billion messages being exchanged every day. But a novel threat presents new challenges: political spam. In part, text messaging’s popularity is explained by the fact that users on […]
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Is it the Economy or is it Politics that Fuels our Discontent?
In a buoyant economy like this, why do so many feel the grip of creeping gloom? In the 3rd quarter of 2018, the US GDP grew by 3%. Inflation scored a tame 1.6%. There are 7.3 million job openings available – more jobs available than there are unemployed people – 6.5 million in January 2019. […]
A Higher Quality Political Agenda
We trudge without enthusiasm toward electing the next crop of politicians. News channels pretend that something meaningful is happening, but federal candidates rarely offer policy positions deeper than one sentence. Instead they offer vacuous promises of greatness and pompous themes from the 1960s. Political blatherskites preach class warfare and condone hypersensitivity on college campuses. Taxpayers […]