The Big Picture

Will the Omicron variant push the U.S. economy to its limit? Finance professor Dr. Murray Sabrin explains how the pandemic has supercharged the usual boom/bust cycle.

Itineraries have been getting clobbered by cancellations, yet experts predict a return to pre-pandemic levels of travel this holiday season.

Despite being tasked with defending Americans at home and abroad, more than 100,000 members of our armed forces struggle to make ends meet.

China’s latest hypersonic missile test has the Pentagon worried, with Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley citing it as a “Sputnik moment.” Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof and

The pandemic has forced countries across the globe to rethink their public transit systems, as riders and operators have dwindled since 2019.

Communities across the U.S. continue to struggle with an opioid epidemic, and fentanyl has become the most dangerous culprit that’s been slipping past border control.

Workers once deemed essential at John Deere and Kellogg’s are dissatisfied with the growing wage gap despite companies logging record profits over the past year.

Law enforcement agencies nationwide have a cozy relationship with platforms like Facebook and Google.

Life imitates art as legendary actor William Shatner suits up to go to space 50 years after playing Captain Kirk aboard Star Trek’s USS Enterprise.

The pandemic birthed a global garbage crisis as recyclables have been replaced by disposables for the sake of public health.

Whether helpful or hazardous, electric scooters have flooded major cities worldwide.

COVID case counts are creeping steadily closer toward the tragic numbers we saw in the winter. Is another nationwide shutdown inevitable?

The Big Picture commemorates its 200th episode by taking a look back at the “stories of our lifetimes” over the past two tumultuous years.

Worsening droughts and an ongoing labor shortage spell trouble for our food supply.

There’s a constant tug-of-war between fact and fiction that’s oftentimes keeping the exchange of ideas in a stranglehold.

While nature has always produced more women than men, national policies and cultural preferences have seriously tipped the scales around the world.

Parents weary from a year of homeschooling are eager to send the kiddo’s back to school in the fall – but is it really safe yet? Host of #TeacherTalk Dr.

With COVID resurgence and Washington’s non-stop noise, domestic issues tend to dominate news coverage. But there’s a-world-of trouble brewin’ elsewhere. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon.

All along Main Street USA, shuttered storefronts are only outnumbered by “Help Wanted” signs these days.

National Geographic’s latest survey says nearly half of us now have a heightened fear of climate change.

After watching education and medicine suddenly morph into Zoom-based industries over the course of the pandemic – legal professionals are now hopping on the trend.

Nearly 15 years since Netflix debuted the revolutionary concept of streaming, the world of entertainment has gone almost completely digital.

As we celebrate the birth of our nation, let’s take a moment to remember those cultural icons lost in 2021.

Everyone is hiring these days.

World leaders tired of hearing “America First” embrace President Biden’s return to multilateral diplomacy.

Post-lockdown unemployment is declining, but prices for goods like lumber, gas, and milk are sharply rising.

Around 10,000 Tokyo Olympic volunteers have resigned from their duties, sending organizers into a tug-of-war with COVID-wary scientists and Japanese citizens.

Countless educators consider leaving their profession due to hardships caused by a year of teaching from home. Was online instruction just a Band-Aid for a much bigger issue?

Talk radio may never be the same following the departure of Rush Limbaugh…or will it?

Smoke 'em if you got 'em...at least for the time being.