White males are Donald Trump's base. No other group supports him As an old white male who is friends with many similarly old white males...

Maybe we raise children, pursue romantic entanglements, join churches or movements and form friendships because we never feel as alive or as...

Within a few centuries, the traditions and teachers that defined the Jewish, Hindu, Confucian and Buddhist faiths emerged. Most contemporary...

Donald Trump is a media creation. First, they created him by focusing on all that is bad and alarming. Outrage is good for ratings and the...

In the late 1940s, the labor participation rate for men was nearly 87%. For every 100 men working, there were only 37 women. By last month...

Nearly 20% of Americans over 65 are working , which is the highest it has been since the early 1960s. Meanwhile, job participation ra...

The Rolling Stones have asked him to stop but Donald continues to use their "Start Me Up!" to rally the crowds. George W. Bush w...

In last night's debate between California's senate candidates, front-runner Kamala Harris was asked by a San Diego State University ...

I think that Donald Trump's success in the Republican primary is evidence suggesting that a for-profit news media with incentive to grat...

This week, Trump said that he'd default on US debt. This would, quite simply, blow up the economy. This isn't conjecture. It's j...

There is so much more to a president's approval rating than just the rate at which the economy created jobs during his term. His looks, ...

Republicans continue to fantasize about a last-minute candidate emerging from the Republican convention who the country will love. As if the...

I rode home beside a lovely man from Sweden the other day. He now lives in San Diego, helping to manage a start-up. He told me that even t...

My book The Fourth Economy includes the stories of Henry VIII and Henry Ford, Pope Boniface and Andrew Carnegie, Galileo and Wilhelm Humbol...

Whether it offends you or delights you, consider for a moment the political debate about the top 1%. They should be taxed more, the argument...

Mother's Day is in about a week. The "mmm" sound babies make so naturally lends itself to "ma," or "mom," ...

Everyone knows that bad foreign policy kills. Failure to intervene can essentially sanction genocide and willingness to intervene can mean p...

Invention begets new invention. Patents are steadily going up and even the rate of patents seems to be steadily going up. Here's a gra...

In spite of all the criticism it has received, it is possible that the Republican Party is getting better aligned with the American people. ...

Yesterday Trump had an interview with Bob Woodward of Watergate fame. I used to wonder whether Trump was an idiot or just hoped that 51% of...