Dear Ben, I recently applied for social security disability benefits because I haven’t been able to work for over a year due to a serious accident I had in 2010; social security has not made a decision yet. However, someone just told me that I was wasting my time applying since even if I’m found [...]

Visiting Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China where they recently marked the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on student protesters who gathered demanding democracy. Tiananmen Square is the world’s largest public square, and the very heart of modern China. Oddly, we lunched at a McDonald’s nearby which sported a “famous western people” theme – including [...]