Spreading wealth to maintain consumption
What will happen if robots, AI, and automation displace a huge percentage of workers. How will there be enough consumers to buy all the goods and services produced if there is a big drop in earnings?
The public is clueless about the federal budget and it’s the New York Times’...
We should be able to get reporters to do their jobs and report budget numbers in a way that means something to their audience.
Youth Revolts Are Back: Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by Demand for Services, End to Corruption...
Youth protests have popped up from time to time–in Turkey, Yemen, and now Beirut and Baghdad–where they are shaking up politics and calling for an end to corrupt governments.
Backers of endless war deplore that many Trump supporters favor using violence
Are some of Trump’s true believers are eager to adapt the violent precepts of perpetual war to American politics?
Protests at the pump
The first major protest of the post-Communist era in Eastern Europe was not about corruption. It wasn’t about disappointments with democracy.
Old McPontiff Had a Farm
Who knew—Pope Francis has a farm. And on his farm he is providing a living model of a sustainable food system to the public. Just one more reason he is living up to his reputation as the “People’s Pope.”
Will Trump give America’s science lead to China?
The world will not stand still while Trump walks the nation’s science and technology into mere clay.
The art of the (Trump and Putin) deal
Mr. Putin, what might you have agreed to do for Trump in return?
The real figure for military spending by the US is 66.3% of the discretionary...
In case you were wondering how Europeans have health care, great trains and roads and great schools...
Will the center hold as elections descend to a war between gut grievances vs....
While Trumpian individualism now equates with rank criminality, social activism fosters greater collective prosperity, opportunities and growth for all.