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Many of today's consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored targets.

Sure, there's a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum allegedly said. But now ...Read more

For some reason, many Americans seem convinced they have to tour Europe this summer -- despite the heat, oppressive crowds and high prices all descending on the continent. And if anyone needs a fourth reason, it's to recognize the growing resentment among many Europeans as the tourist hordes turn their town centers into trinket malls, eroding ...Read more

On Feb. 22, 2022, two days before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks rumbling toward Ukraine's capital, Donald Trump said of the Russian leader: "This is genius. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy."

Eight days later, Lindsey Graham offered a starkly different sentiment: "The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out."

The ...Read more

The Platner fiasco has unleashed something of a brawl in the Democratic Party over how the sexting candidate with a Nazi tattoo came to be their rival to Susan Collins, now in her 5th term as Republican senator from Maine. Bernie Sanders thought his socialists could pass off blue-collar impersonator Graham Platner -- a product of the elite ...Read more