With the labor participation rate at 50-year lows and millions of Americans no longer counted as unemployed, many Americans are convinced the American Dream is in need of a bailout. But what does that look like? “Radical realism” — not socialism — may very well be the answer.
If you get the impression that Americans' grasp of the news scarcely overlaps, you are not imagining things.
By all counts, the pre-Election Day polls suggested the 2012 presidential race would be so razor-thin close, it could even be a repeat of the 2000 Bush vs. Gore presidential election, in which the popular vote and the electoral college vote were at odds. Here's what appeared to have sealed the deal on the Obama …