Yascha Mounk has an interesting podcast on the BBC in which he traces the rise of populism along the old iron curtain in Europe. A Polish...

Trump wanted to appoint his friend Herman Cain to the Fed. He's still pursuing the appointment of Stephen Moore. As it comes out, Trum...

During his thirty-year career, Martin Luther produced 544 separate books, pamphlets, or articles, slightly more than one every three weeks. ...

"I like the idea of a gold standard and, you know, restoring value to the dollar," Stephen Moore says in this clip . Trump has a...

The notion that immigrants are a threat to your job has a few elements, just one that I want to explore here. If an immigrant is a threat ...

Universities have standards they use to judge whether applicants deserve to join. We have elections to decide who should serve on city coun...

"I'm [angry, outraged, offended] so you have to take my idea seriously." "No. Your idea needs to be serious to be taken ...

Dee Hock fascinates me. He knew that money had been many things over time, from tobacco leaves to gold bits to pieces of paper - and realize...

Our last four presidents were all baby boomers. Clinton, Bush, and Trump were all born within a year of when Japan's surrender ended W...

With Trump's on-going attack on dead John McCain last weekend one thing is clear: the GOP has officially become the anti-sacrifice party...

I like Elizabeth Warren. Until she lapses into the reasons for raising taxes on the rich. "A government that caters to the rich is corr...

It hit me that the candidate who could win me over in 2020 could do that with a promise to fund our public broadcasting at the same rate tha...

I find it helpful to tease through data just to calibrate perception. You may as well, so I'm sharing something I was teasing through t...

Here is a chart showing the change in deficit from the first year of a president's term to the first year of his successor's term, t...

I watched parts of the Cohen hearing. The theme with Trump always seems the same: someone who once defended or worked with or was married to...

It’s hardly surprising that in the wake of the first billionaire’s presidency we would have a backlash against billionaires and talk of a ...

Looking for numbers to help inform a few arguments, I've run into or created the following recently. I know I obsess over these kinds of...

Creative answers to these two questions drives progress. 1. How do we automate jobs in order to obsolete lower-paying jobs and increase pro...

Anomie, noun Sociology. a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, a...

There are two dimensions to improving lives. The first has to do with income transfer from rich to poor, the second with raising real median...