Wednesday, December 24, 2025

North Korea’s real threat

North Korea’s greatest liability is something that it currently views as an asset: its radical isolation.

Companies can either make things or make CEOs rich

Making breakthroughs for consumers is hard, companies have found. But making fortunes for CEOs is easy.

Vladimir Putin: Global gunman

Why are we concerned about humiliating mass murderers?

Routing the two-tier system: Part VII – compensation

In a system like this, the wealthy would be the ones paying taxes, because the non-wealthy would be receiving only basic income.

How repealing the ACA will hurt rural communities

The GOP health care bill would drastically reduce rural Americans’ insurance coverage and significantly threaten the ability of many rural hospitals and clinics to stay open.

Toxic Alaska mine could ‘destroy the world’s last great sockeye salmon fishery’

The massive Pebble Mine project is back in play after Alaska’s governor met with President Donald Trump.

Growing my way out of dystopia

Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?

Why Hillary Should Fulfill Bill’s Promise on Pay

Hillary Clinton has proposed penalizing pharmaceutical companies like Mylan that suddenly jack up the prices of crucial drugs. But she could take it even farther.

Clearing the Trump Trainwreck!

When reality goes from bad to worse/ What’s sane for me is satiric verse.

Union-Made Miracle on the Hudson

From Captain Sully to the ferry crews, it's union-trained workers who saved the passengers on Flight 1549.