After blasting into solo-Beatledom in fine style with 1970’s mega-selling “All Things Must Pass,” George Harrison had also begun a long, slow spiral into a protracted period of ill health…
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Americans are dying sooner, increasingly self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, and committing suicide at alarming rates. The unifying factor for all of these conditions? Stress. These growing public health epidemics…
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Trump’s malignant pattern: He woos people, rips them off and then abandons them — and he won’t stop
by Salonby SalonTrump has followed the same manipulative script over and over again, in politics as in business.
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The Senate was just the start: A mass extinction of the toxic bosses in every sector is upon us
by Salonby SalonThat is certainly the question that surrounds Presidential Candidate, Amy Klobuchar, after a series of articles reported on her mistreatment of staff. Among the back and forth between Klobuchar’s advocates…
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In ‘The Curse of Bigness,’ author Tim Wu makes his case that big business ushered in the Nazis
by Salonby SalonThe recent increase in economic concentration and monopoly power make the United States “ripe for dictatorship,” claims Columbia law professor Tim Wu in his new book, “The Curse of Bigness.” With the…
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by Timothy Denevi It was on a Friday evening at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference —during a taping of a podcast in a nondescript hotel room at the National Harbor —…
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The U.S.-Mexico border is rugged and hot — and filled with row upon row of razor wire and fencing. Crossing this 1,900-mile boundary without permission is tremendously risky; evading capture is difficult. This…
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We live in a cultural moment in which a large swathe of mass-market consumers, largely comprised of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, regularly flock to purchase new releases of reconfigured,…
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oday’s pot is hardly the skunkweed of the ’80s. While this won’t be news to many, I wonder if people realize the complexities involved in growing today’s designer weed, medicinal…
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In 1969 the fifth Beatle was heroin: How John Lennon’s addiction took its toll on the band
by Salonby SalonFifty years ago, the Beatles entered their final year as a working rock ’n’ roll band. And in the ensuing decades, the reasons for their eventual disbandment have been debated ad…