Interview:   James Riordan is the author of thirty-three books, including the New York Times Bestseller, Break on Through: The Life & Death of Jim Morrison which was one of the primary sources for Oliver Stone’s epic film, The Doors. Riordan also wrote Stone’s biography, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses &

©2015 Bloomberg View NTAP7L6S972M (Bloomberg View) — Ted Cruz is a man with a plan. The Republican presidential candidate, bete noire of his party’s establishment, has carefully calculated a path to becoming the right-wing standard-bearer. That makes him the most underestimated candidate in the field. Cruz is rising in some

©2015 Bloomberg View NTAPZA6JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — Republicans have been saying “repeal and replace Obamacare” for so long that it has started to sound like one of those ceremonial phrases that drop out automatically at opportune moments, like “hellohowareyou” or “thankyouhaveaniceday.” The party has conspicuously failed to actually coalesce around a plausible

©2015 Bloomberg View NTAN0H6JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — When Black Lives Matter activists confronted Hillary Clinton last week, she argued: Look, I don’t believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You’re not gonna change every heart. You’re not.

©2015 Bloomberg View NT8W7I6KLVRA (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump has an immigration policy. It’s based on dubious assertions and would be fabulously expensive, but as a statement of goals it’s largely coherent. And it may mark a very, very dangerous turning point in the Republican presidential primary. There are two main facets

©2015 Bloomberg News NT8XNB6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — A renewed slump in commodities damped inflation expectations and boosted demand for Treasuries, while China’s shock devaluation of its currency continued to unsettle emerging markets. The Bloomberg Commodity Index sank to a 13-year low as declines in assets from copper to oil boosted the

©2015 Bloomberg News NT8XQ86JTSE9 (Bloomberg Politics) — Donald Trump’s sprawling new immigration proposal calls for deporting the estimated 11 million people in the U.S. illegally and closes many doors to legal immigration. The plan, released Sunday, was quickly embraced by immigration-wary Republicans—Ann Coulter called it the “greatest political document since

Though running can be enriching and rewarding to both professional athletes and long-time couch potatoes looking to get back in shape, it comes with a few injury risks. Arguably the best known of these injuries is Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome, also known as “shin splints.” If you ever suffer from

India’s government is seeking damages of nearly $100m from Nestle India for “unfair trade practices” after the food safety regulator banned its hugely popular Maggi noodles brand in June for containing unsafe levels of lead. The government said on Wednesday that it has filed a suit with the country’s top

©2015 Bloomberg View NT1DAI6JTSEA (Bloomberg View) — Should the Jews have a pope? For most of the last 2,000 years, the answer has been “no.” Rabbinic authority has been decentralized, with each community choosing its own religious leaders to follow. But now Israel’s Chief Rabbinate is seeking to monopolize and