As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it at serious risk of losing its Senate ...
Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, delegates met in Philadelphia and signed their names to a document that risked everything. The Declaration of Independence was a bet that ordinary people, given truthful information about those in power, could govern themselves.
That promise is harder ...
History attributes the famous milk idiom to a Mr. James Howell, who, in 1659, included the phrase 鈥淣o weeping for shed milk鈥 in his book 鈥淧aramoigraphy (Proverbs).鈥
But I think it was probably a mother whose toddler knocked over a cup and sent a waterfall of white cascading onto the ...