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Today, anyone can access music almost anywhere. Due to the revolution in digital services over the last decade, business models are trending towards streaming platforms and away from individual purchases. This rapidly changing reality has set off a debate about the future of streaming music sales and companies like Pandora …

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the most admired and talked about women in modern history despite her desperate attempts to remain private. I was always fascinated by her grace and style — the Chanel suits, Cassini sheaths, and cultured pearls hung so elegantly on her lithe figure. But I …

I was navigating a ship into San Diego Harbor when it happened, knocking me off balance, stopping us dead in the water. I was in the middle of my final exam for enlisted navigator training, listening to a recording of three bearings every minute, triangulating the ship’s position. The senior …

Lois Lerner’s appearance on Capitol Hill this week reminds us that, to date, she has become the face of the IRS stonewall: the refusal to tell the American people the truth about the agency’s targeting of groups and individuals as part of a political persecution of conservatives. My story about …

Some of us could live 40 years after retirement. Do you think you’ll have enough to retire? It’s not that you don’t know the answer; it’s that you don’t want to think about it. Americans on average are living longer now than ever before. A 65-year-old can expect to live …

Is the freshman senator on an “ego trip,” putting himself before country (Dana Milbank, The Washington Post), or is he standing on his principles (Cruz’s conservative supporters)? ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl says Cruz is “so hated” among GOP senators that “he’s going to need a food taster.” …

The issue of life is front and center this week, as several hundred thousand brave souls come to Washington to march from the White House to the Supreme Court in defense of it. A recent column by Peggy Noonan put into perspective how central the life issue is to everyone.She …

What is the worst problem in the world today? Might it be war, starvation, genocide, sectarian violence, murder, slaughter of babies in the womb? Any of these would be a rational answer. But when Pope Francis was asked this question recently, he replied, “Youth unemployment.” To be sure, youth unemployment …

Poor Barack Obama. Ending his fifth year as the world’s most powerful man, he is running out of scapegoats and fairy tales. Blaming George W. Bush has lost its punch, and the ObamaCare debacle is shredding the myths he is competent and honest. Still, before he rides off into that …

America has had some great presidents, many mediocre ones and a few bad ones. But we’ve never had one like Barack Obama. He’s the first who thinks the job is beneath him. He’s the first who turns political give-and-take into a crisis by refusing to negotiate with Congress. He’s the …