Michael Snyder

We all knew that this was coming. For ages, people like me have been ranting that we would be facing a financial nightmare if we didn’t get the national debt under control. Of course most of the population didn’t want to listen, and they just kept sending big spenders back to Washington. Now we are […]

Summer is almost over, and kids are returning to school. So why not get the whole brood together for a night out at the multiplex before homework becomes too overwhelming? Conveniently enough, there are two new PG-rated films — Coyote vs. Acme and The Magic Faraway Tree — that should fit the bill; however, one […]

Summer is almost over, and kids are returning to school. So why not get the whole brood together for a night out at the multiplex before homework becomes t

Deadly Nepal-Tibet floods, volcanic unrest, record ocean heat and worsening wildfires signal a devastating surge in global disasters.

There is a growing national outcry to ban Flock cameras. We do not give up our constitutional rights when we get into our vehicles, and we do not want authoritarian control freaks watching us, monitoring us and tracking us everywhere that we go. This is an issue that is uniting people all over the country, […]

Mexico's second city is the birthplace of many of its cultural cornerstones, from mariachi to tequila. Longtime visitor Michael Snyder returns to dive deep into its world-class food and craft scenes.

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Since television first captured the public’s fancy in the 1950s, shows about detectives and spies have predominantly featured men in the main roles. There have been distaff outliers, from Anne Francis as the title character of the 1965 ABC private-eye series Honey West to Jennifer Garner as agent Sydney Bristow in the 2001–6 ABC espionage […]

Millions of Americans face worsening poverty, hunger, homelessness and deteriorating living conditions in our prosperous nation.