American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

February 2020

Where Our Trust in News Lives

By Salena Zito Every Wednesday morning, James McDaniel sits along the South Main Street portion of U.S. Highway 11 with a healthy stack of The News-Gazette beside him. He wears a neat white apron with the newspaper’s moniker stitched across the top...

February 2020

The $30 Fix for Your Love Life

By Dr. David Eifrig A bedside table lamp could help reinvigorate your sex life… Recent research from the University of Siena in Italy says that light exposure helps boost male sex drive. The study, although small, recruited men with hypoactive...

February 2020

Fixing the Faults in Our Stars

By James Hetrick The number 2020 divided by 4 equals 505, exactly – with no remainder, which makes the year 2020, like the upcoming years 2024, 2028, 2032 (and beyond), a leap year. We will get an “extra” day, February 29. This pattern...

February 2020

Socialism, Lies, and Coronavirus

It’s what they’re not telling you that matters the most… By Kim Iskyan On August 14, 1998, the president of a powerful, formerly communist nation told one of the biggest lies ever… At the time, I was living in Russia, so it occupies a...

February 2020

How to Escape From Japan

By Dan Ferris I don’t believe any business schools offer a ‘How to Escape From Japan 101’ course… They might want to rethink that. For example, let’s say you become the CEO of a big car company in Japan… get anointed as a hero for saving...

February 2020

Virginia Today, Your State Next

By Jesse Kelly Things have changed in America. And it’s only going to get worse – not better. We often struggle to accept when things have changed. It’s perfectly human. We instinctively fear the unknown. Change is unknown and should therefore be...

February 2020

Financial Markets’ Iran Delusion

By Nouriel Roubini Following the United States’ assassination of Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and Iran’s initial retaliation against two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops, financial markets moved into risk-off mode: Oil prices spiked...

February 2020

In War, Revenge Equals Destruction

By Bill Bonner Iran seems to have taken the bait. It couldn’t resist having its revenge on the avenger. But what’s this… ? Is that giggling noise coming from the graveyard… ? Today we return to our study of the two disastrous, society...