Oct 3, 2025
The Trump EPA now proposes to stop requiring corporations to measure and report the amount of greenhouse gases they're releasing. Apparently the administration fears all these measurements will undermine its feeble arguments that it's safe to continue burning coal, oil, and, gas to produce power.
Sep 23, 2025
People purchasing insurance in the subsidized Obamacare marketplaces can have a terrible time trying to figure out a policy which has their current doctors "in network" and which will cover the medicines they're taking.
Sep 15, 2025
Effective leaders must take advice into consideration but not allow one expert to dictate decisions. Policy choices require tradeoffs between conflicting government objectives.
Sep 2, 2025
Billions of dollars spent on atomic bombs and bombers as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles could provide adequate security for less money that conventional forces.
Aug 28, 2025
If someone tells you a worldwide grid to distribute solar energy is impossible because of transmission losses, ask yourself how much stock that person has in oil wells.
Aug 19, 2025
Although Mr. Trump repeatedly speaks of "Making Brazil Pay," "Making China Pay," etc., he's actually imposing a tax on goods imported into the U.S. from those countries.
Aug 6, 2025
Anti-discrimination legislation, although well meant, has produced a horrible tangle of moral, legal, and practical issues. We need to sort out this tangle and completely rethink discrimination.
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.