Since the first of July, I have spent time here in Seattle; in Brookhaven, Georgia, the Atlanta suburb where my youngest son Jamie lives with his wife and my 4 young grandchildren; and in my east-coast home in Gettysburg, which, aside from its historic past, is really just a small rur...
The middle class is in a segmented state, Smith argues, largely determined by how much debt one finds themselves in. "If you are someone who bought a house before 2020 and you have it paid off or you have a 3% interest rate, you are not burdened by...
The FT interviewed Americans around the US to hear their views on the state of the middle class and their place in it. Their comments range from the insecurity felt by public sector workers, whose numbers were cut sharply after the Great Recession, to the optimism of high-tech workers who ...
In 1992 Turan University, a non-state and nonprofit institution was established in Almaty. Many others would follow. The following year, the Kazakhstan government instituted its Bolashak program, a competitive scholarship program providing complete tuition and living expenses for the country's brightest...
Populism has been an inherent phenomenon in the history of the United States since the beginning of the republic to the present, but it is only in 2016 that a populist leader, Donald Trump, has won the presidential election. The article considers Trump’