Robert Powell - Special for USA TODAY They’re called year-end planning strategies. But you certainly don’t want to wait until the last few days of the year to buff up your financial plan. Here are…
Jori Epstein USA TODAY The first half looked so familiar that Mike McCarthy decided to acknowledge the elephant in the locker room. The realization had hit: It’s happening again. For the sixth consecutive game, the…
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) drops back to pass against the Houston Texans in the first quarter in a AFC Wild Card playoff football game at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, January 5, 2019.…
A fleet of Uber self-driving cars at a technology demonstration in September 2016. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters) If our best and brightest venture capitalists can’t pick winners, the government doesn’t stand a chance. The idea that the…
President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Foreign policy via Twitter may not be wise, but Congresss has given the president…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies on Capitol Hill in April 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) There is a path forward, but it’s not to treat the companies as public utilities or to break them up. Imagine you’re…
Cotton field in Florence, Ala. in 2015. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to advance an argument with an inauspicious history. ‘I say that cotton is king, and…
President Donald Trump at a rally in Manchester, N.H., August 15, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) If history is any guide, the election will not be close — whether the incumbent wins or loses. Will Donald Trump’s…
First Lady Melania Trump is resort ready for the French Riviera for her second day in Biarritz, France, alongside France’s Brigitte Macron and the other G7 Summit spouses. Mrs. Trump wore a crisp white Calvin Klein…
AP Photo/Matt Rourke Global stocks just reversed what looked to be another day of steep losses after Trump said China wants to resume trade talks. The comments came too late to halt a rout in…