Op-Ed

Everywhere you look, the digital age continues to disrupt long-standing business models and to challenge our expectations of what is possible. The PC and the Internet have been powerful engines for economic growth, personal expression and disruptive change. The ability to put all of that technology in people’s pockets — or in their glasses or in their cars’ dashboards — promises to have just as significant an impact on our world.

Years ago, I graduated from a state university with no student debt and very little financial help from my parents. But times have changed. It is only now — more than 10 years after my youngest child graduated from college — that I will finish paying off my portion of our kids’ college loans. This illustrates the stark contrast between the cost of college education now and from a generation ago. Steadily increasing college tuition costs have outpaced inflation, making a university education out of reach for a large portion of the population.

“I know that food aid often gets there after everyone’s dead.”

This is the time when every second-term president starts thinking about his legacy. 

Plain and simple — the farm bill should not be used as an avenue to increase dairy prices and distort the dairy market.

The continued political attacks aimed at U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder represent the most insidious kind of political gamesmanship.

 “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America, there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

Six months into the 113th Congress, the GOP has doubled down on the limited identity it developed in the 112th. 

This is not a conspiracy. This is self-defense. 

As a survivor of the mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., two-and-a-half years ago, I am determined that no one else should have to endure such grief and loss.