This morning, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a $4 trillion market cap. Our economy has evolved: from creating wealth th...

In the US, there are 735 billionaires and 535 federal legislators – about 200 more billionaires than lawmakers. * Legislators earn roughly 2...

New term: Deja nu.  The distinct feeling that this has never happened before.

Just finished Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation . It’s fascinatin...

It is the anniversary of start of one of the more weird and wonderful experiments in human affairs. In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln dated...

    This graph illustrates a crucial insight: government spending as a percentage of GDP depends not only on how fast spending grows but on ...

We often see polls that show self-proclaimed Democrats or Republicans or Independents' mood about the economy. Positive? Negative? It se...

In April .... Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Republican Senator from Alaska) said a fear of retaliation under President Donald Trump’s administration ...

I wonder, when AI evolves beyond us and humanity is gone, how will we be remembered? Will AIs look back on us as the Greeks did their gods -...

A dating app that lets you swipe up to see their shoes. I'll call it "SoleMate."

What's not on this list? The assassination of a state legislator and her husband by a MAGA goon.  It was just 10 days ago that Melissa A...

The scientific conference was defining — and, as befitted the times, exclusively male. The secretary cleared his throat and spoke. “So, when...

Mission Impossible Mission Improbable Mission Not a Sure Thing Mission We've Got This. Maybe Mission Oops! Mission We Really Should Have...

Last week Trump sent troops into California. This week he drops bombs in the Middle East. To be a Trump supporter is to essentially say that...

This contrast between college-educated and non-college educated women is stark and oddly fascinating.  Four forces at play here. 1. Women wi...

(loosely adapted from various parts of Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove) We are not in love with the person themselves, but with the i...

Xenophobia is fear or hostility toward people from other cultures or nations. Racism is fear or hostility toward people based on visible gen...

Those people angry about vaccines and masks? Imagine how furious they will be when driving is illegal.

The first protest march probably involved some poor soldier in ill-fitting boots. The American revolutionaries didn’t have enough money for...

Here are 2 of the big reasons that Trump is going so hard after California. His Secretary of Homeland Security announced, “We are staying he...