Jul 11, 2025
The human race is confronting a monumental challenge to its very existence and has been unable to rise above tribal rivalries and wars, short-sighted economic interests, and, often, pure hatred of "the other," to cooperate in protecting itself from becoming extinct.
Jul 8, 2025
Mr. Trump shares former president William McKinley's enthusiasm for tariffs. But tariffs on imported goods are an indirect sales tax. Like sales taxes, they increase the prices that consumers of those goods must pay and the extra money goes to our government.
Jun 23, 2025
Americans have long bragged that we are the world's most advanced nation. We certainly used to be. But those leading earlier in a race do not always end up winning it.
Jun 17, 2025
Elon Musk has been a tremendously creative and successful entrepreneur, but his most driving ambition, to spread humanity out onto other planets, probably pushes an interesting idea way beyond its usefulness.
Jun 11, 2025
Republicans in Congress are planning to slash funding for Medicaid to help pay for major tax reductions for wealthy Americans and corporations. But they don't want to cut Medicaid openly because it will gravely injure many people who voted for them.
May 27, 2025
The tax cuts enacted during the first Trump administration were scheduled to sunset at the end of 2025, returning us to the higher pre-2017 tax levels .Donald Trump now wants Congress to renew these tax cuts.
May 14, 2025
Congress may be about to sell large amounts of electromagnetic spectrum - through which cellphone, radio, and TV signals are transmitted - to private corporations. This could bring in tens of billions of dollars, but selling spectrum is a terrible idea.
May 5, 2025
Ironically, Donald Trump's attacks on wind turbines could hasten the day when we stop burning coal, oil, and gas.