Politics

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife." It's time we free students from debt and create a new debt-free democracy.

"This is the Panama Papers on steroids."

Soon, we might have to consider flying on an airplane with nuclear-powered engines after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the Boeing Company for an airplane engine that combines the use of lasers and nuclear power. But what are the consequences?

“The reality is that we don’t know for sure what is driving the productivity puzzle or whether it is a temporary phenomenon. ”

So, brace for reams of critical Brexit analysis, implying the UK cut off its nose to spite its face. And let’s never forget Trump’s high-risk, gambling world is “winning take all.” That means “losers gets nothing.” Hardly a great model for parenting, let alone large-scale, global business planning or trade or health for complex, modern nation-states. Gambling for adults works when betting disposable dollars on transient sporting events when the results are instantly known. Will voters in November here not add false flummery about Brexit shortfalls as another crack-brain spoke in Trump’s broken-down political wheelhouse?

The United States government should be using its investments in medical research and innovation to benefit all Americans, not just the shareholders at a few corporations.

Influence is typically written in an abbreviated, matter-of-fact style, but its brief items speak volumes about the realities of American politics.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

“The decision of the United States to be the only country on Earth …"

Idaho farmers frustrated with far-right rhetoric, endless congressional fighting over undocumented Hispanic workers.