Jess Lahitou

Last week, I wrote about why Millennials face serious financial hurdles to independence. Today, I’m looking for 2016 POTUS candidates to throw us an economic-policy bone.

Democrats need to nominate the person with the best chance of cleaning the floor with Donald Trump. Not just for their own victory, but for the… dare I say, survival of the country itself.

Last night was the first chance American voters had to hand tangible results to 2016 presidential candidates.

I should begin by clarifying that I am no political reactionary.

That’s what Syria is — our morally bankrupt foreign policy, impossible to escape, impossible to fix.

Four years ago, my husband took a job transfer to Bogota, Colombia.

The workings of Congress are pretty fascinating. If you like The Borgias, The Tudors, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, then following the seemingly innocuous happenings in DC is a fascinating enterprise. You know that this is where the real action happens.

Everyone but Michael Moore underestimated the level of economic angst and cultural upheaval occurring in the Rust Belt, that collection of states forming a sloped capital “E” along the Great Lakes: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

If Hillary Clinton has major medical concerns, now is the time to tell the American public.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that Democrats and Republicans aren’t getting along so well these days.