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No fooling, Americans are feeling more confident in the job market than anytime since the Great Recession. In March the U.S. added a robust 215,000 jobs, crushing expectations and raising …

Chances are that you regularly get your car tuned, never miss an oil change, and keep it looking shiny and new by buffing and polishing it. Well, you try to …

For most of us, our view of housing is rooted in the 1950s, as are our views of working and retirement. The 50s shaped so much of our thinking that …

The U.S. and China are at war, only it’s not with guns, bombs and missiles. You won’t see burned out homes on television or streams of refugees leaving cities but …

The corporate raiders of the 1980s mined America’s corporate landscape of wealth without adding any value. Today the strip mining of our corporate wealth has largely played out and the …

The United States government is the largest buyer of goods and services in the country. With that scale of purchasing power, you’d think that it has enormous leverage to get …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. The eyes of the world are focused on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup of soccer. It’s a televised panoply of white sandy …

The people in healthcare who sit up nights worrying about potentially world-shattering death plagues are monitoring Middle East Respiratory System, known as “MERS.” It’s already infected more than 600 people worldwide, killing roughly 30% of …

Welcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future. HIT THE ROAD, JILL — New York Times editor-in-chief …

This past Saturday evening saw the 100th White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the annual event at which politicians and the news media, the two groups directly responsible for the mess America is …