The Dollar And How America’s Financial Power Shapes The World
When you step back from the noise of daily politics, you realize that the real story isn’t happening on cable…
Ivanpah: no such thing as a free lunch
So-called renewable energy has never lived up to its extravagant promise. Windmills are very expensive, hard to service, and produce…
Shouldn’t Attorneys General want to stop crime?
Why would the attorney general of any state be uninterested in prosecuting fraud amounting to billions of dollars? As the…
National Debt Reaches a Scary Milestone
The U.S. national debt has crossed an ominous threshold, rising above 100 percent of national gross domestic product, or GDP.…
The Cyber Apocalypse Nobody’s Ready For: Why Q-Day Changes Everything
For years, “cyber apocalypse” talk sounded like the tech version of a guy on a street corner holding a cardboard…
Who is really behind data center opposition?
We are often best defined not by the company we keep, but by our enemies. Having the right—left—enemies tends to…
Let’s Stop Paying to Bankrupt America
For decades, politicians in Washington have paid lip service to “fiscal responsibility” as they practice fiscal irresponsibility on a scale…
If Hemingway wrote for the Congressional Budget Office
Two or three times every year, the Congressional Budget Office publishes one of the most revealing documents in American public…
Artificial Intelligence and the Devil
At a news conference discussion of Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas encyclical, Leo was joined in discussing a subtopic concerning the…
From Tying Shoes to Artificial Intelligence
Cleaning out the attic, I recently came across my daughter’s first pair of walking shoes. They were the white leather…