Dec 17, 2024
To date, single-payer medical insurance has been politically impossible because so many people are satisfied with their job-based insurance and fear that coverage would not be as good under single-payer.
Dec 6, 2024
Now that the presidential election is over, some supporters of Donald Trump are claiming that the voters have given him a mandate to make big changes in our government.
Nov 22, 2024
Rather than risking the future of civilization and the human race on untested theories about geoengineering, we probably should just intensify current efforts to replace carbon fuels with green energy.
Nov 19, 2024
We would be back to ad hoc bipartisan coalitions, a newly functional House, and more active participation in legislation by all members of the House, not just the party leaders.
Nov 13, 2024
Voting should be an "inalienable" right in two senses: that we cannot give or sell our vote to someone else, and that government cannot deprive us of that right for any reason.
Nov 4, 2024
Unlike 1787, a new convention would be under immense pressure from organized interest groups, and not only by domestic groups.
Oct 29, 2024
Donald Trump claims that deporting millions of undocumented aliens would reduce the housing shortage. But images of hapless families packed into cattle cars look more like Stalinist Russia than the America I want to live in.
Oct 21, 2024
No one would board an airliner whose pilot had no previous flying experience. We wouldn't consult a "doctor" who had never attended medical school and had no experience treating physical or mental illnesses.