The Earth’s climate is changing …, but that’s not news. The Earth’s climate is constantly changing. The most recent changes mean a warming Earth. In what is the nearest thing to unanimity, the scientific community has concluded that the trend is up, up, up …, with...
The U.S. increased the size of the target on its chest when it used its financial muscle to sanction and impose tariffs on countries that failed to comply with its post-WWII capitalist, democracy-centered, moralistic international order. As a consequence, the U.S. now resembles the deer in...
What’s wrong with 21st Century America? In a single word, leadership … or, more precisely, the lack of it. America has lacked effective, constructive leadership for almost 30 years. That’s an entire generation! America’s Presidents, the successive standard-bearers of the Republican and Democratic Parties – Bill Clinton,...
How often have you heard that cheer? Never, right? For good reason. How many mothers have you heard wishing that their children grow up to become tax return preparers? None, right? For good reason. Candidate Donald Trump in 2016 called America’s tax system “complex” and “unfair” –...
“It's your kids, Marty. Something's gotta be done about your kids!” – Doc Brown, Back to the Future, Part II. America has been the most successful, most powerful and most creative nation in history. Some ascribe America’s greatness to American Exceptionalism. Others point to America’s unique form...
