Paying Tariffs
Kerby Anderson President Trump has been promoting the positive impact of his tariffs, while his critics argue that ultimately Americans will be paying the price for his tariffs. The editors of the Wal...
Emigration and Immigration
Kerby Anderson Steven Camarota concludes that “Illegal Immigration Can be Controlled.” For the last two decades or so, we have been told that immigration is like the weather. It can’t be controlled, s...
Government Grocery Store
Penna Dexter The frontrunner in the New York mayoral race, has a lot of bad ideas. Soon after Zohan Mamdani won the Democratic primary, John Catsimatidis, owner of New York City’s 2 oldest and largest...
Deliberative Body
Kerby Anderson No one knows for sure who called the U.S. Senate the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body,” but it is often attributed to President James Buchanan. It was the venue where orators like...
Genetic Engineering
Kerby Anderson A recent NPR story begins with this introduction: “About a year before the pandemic hit, a scientist in China, He Jiankui, revealed that he had secretly engineered the birth of the firs...
AI and Jobs
Kerby Anderson New job creation in this country is down. There are many reasons, but one of those is artificial intelligence. Microsoft said it was laying off thousands of engineers because of AI. Wal...
Future Wars
Kerby Anderson You have probably heard the observation that often the military is “fighting the current war with the tactics of the previous war.” There has been a tendency for military leaders to rel...
Gerrymandering
Kerby Anderson When Texas Democrats fled the state to avoid a vote on redistricting, all of us started learning more about the phenomenon of gerrymandering. Even though I have written at least a half...
Depopulation Threat
Penna Dexter The fertility rate in the United States just hit 1.6 children per woman, an all time low. The replacement rate — the level that will keep the population stable — is 2.1 children per woma...
Gold as Money
Kerby Anderson You may have seen the announcement that astronomers have found an asteroid (Asteroid Psyche 16) that has been found to contain gold reserves worth $700 quintillion. That announcement wa...
California Leaving
Kerby Anderson Many companies have made the decision to move their headquarters out of California. But the latest decision by In-N-Out Burger is something new because most of their restaurants are in...
