ESTIMATES FROM THE CENSUS DEPARTMENT LAST YEAR POINT TO THE LATEST TREND IN THE MIX OF AMERICA’S MELTING POT. FOR THE FIRST TIME, MORE THAN HALF OF THE BIRTHS IN THE NATION WERE TO PEOPLE OF ETHNIC AND RACIAL MINORITIES. IN SPITE OF THIS, THE CENSUS BUREAU’S NEW DATA ALSO SHOWS THAT RECENT TRENDS IN [...]

REBEKKAH BROOKS WAS NOT A FAMILIAR FIGURE TO NEWS WATCHERS OUTSIDE GREAT BRITAIN UNTIL THE PHONE HACKING SCANDAL AT RUPERT MURDOCH’S NEWS INTERNATIONAL BROKE LAST SUMMER. SINCE THEN, THE U-K TABLOID BROOKS ONCE EDITED — NEWS OF THE WORLD — HAS CEASED TO EXIST. ALSO, A COMMITTEE IN PARLIAMENT HAS DECLARED BROOKS’ BOSS MURDOCH UNFIT [...]

JP MORGAN CHASE — ONE OF THE GIANTS OF AMERICAN BANKING AND FINANCE LEFT STANDING AFTER THE CRISIS OF 2008 — IS STILL STANDING IN PART BECAUSE OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. LAST WEEK, IT BECAME KNOWN THAT JP MORGAN CHASE LOST SOME 2 (B) BILLION DOLLARS THROUGH THE SAME KIND OF PRACTICES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO [...]

THE MAN WHO’S THE LONGEST-SERVING MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE WILL SERVE NO MORE COME 2013. VETERAN REPUBLICAN RICHARD LUGAR, A RESPECTED AUTHORITY ON FOREIGN POLICY IN THE SENATE GOT HIS HEAD HANDED TO HIM BY ANOTHER RICHARD — RICHARD MOURDOCK, INDIANA’S G-O-P STATE TREASURER IN TUESDAY’S HOOSIER STATE PRIMARY. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE [...]

THE BIG DEBATE IN THE U-S SENATE RIGHT NOW DEALS WITH STUDENT LOANS — SUBSIDIZED STAFFORD STUDENT LOANS — AND HOW TO PREVENT THE RATES ON THOSE LOANS FROM DOUBLING AS THEY’RE SCHEDULED TO DO IF CONGRESS DOESN’T ACT BY JULY THE FIRST. NEITHER THE MAJORITY DEMOCRATS NOR REPUBLICANS WANT TO BE SEEN MAKING THINGS [...]

A BLIND CHINESE DISSIDENT IS IMPACTING RELATIONS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND BEIJIING IN WAYS NOT SEEN SINCE TANKS ROLLED IN TO TIEMANMEN SQUARE. WITH HIGH LEVEL STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC TALKS BETWEEN THE 2 NATIONS HAPPENING LATER IN THE WEEK, THE ISSUE OF LAWYER CHEN GUANGCHENG HAS BROUGHT ATTENTION TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN CHINA, SOMETHING [...]

MITT ROMNEY IS STILL NOT CALLING HIMSELF THE NOMINEE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR PRESIDENT. THERE ARE, FRANKLY SOME ADDITIONAL PRIMARIES AND A CONVENTION IN AUGUST TO DEAL WITH. BUT THE PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE OF THE G-O-P IN 2012 SAID IN NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY, “A BETTER AMERICA BEGINS TONIGHT,” WHICH COULD BE TAKEN AS A SIGN [...]

ACROSS FIVE STATES HOLDING REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES FOR PRESIDENT TODAY — INCLUDING HERE IN NEW YORK — 209 DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION IN TAMPA WILL BE CHOSEN. AND MITT ROMNEY CAN MORE OR LESS SIT BACK AND COLLECT AS MANY OF THEM AS HE CAN HAVING ALL BUT SEWN THINGS UP AT THIS POINT. THE RESULTS [...]

REBOOTING THE TAX SYSTEM SO THAT BILLIONAIRES SUCH AS INVESTOR WARREN BUFFETT PAY A RATE AND A TOTAL OF REVENUE MORE IN LINE WITH THEIR VAST EARNINGS IS A MOVE THAT WOULD SEEM TO MAKE POLITICAL SENSE. BUT DESPITE RESULTS OF A GALLUP POLL LAST WEEK INDICATING STRONG NATIONWIDE SUPPORT FOR A LAW RESEMBLING THE [...]

AN ADVANCE TEAM OF SIX UNITED NATIONS OBSERVERS ARRIVED IN SYRIA’S CAPITOL DAMASCUS SUNDAY EVENING. THAT TEAM FROM THE U-N IS OSTENSIBLY IN THE COUNTRY TO MONITOR A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT. BUT THE FIRING FROM ARTILLERY SHELLS AND MORTARS BY PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD’S FORCES HAS NOT CEASED. HOMS, A CITY STILL IDENTIFIED AS A CENTER OF [...]