Danish Plan
Ban GMOs? First show us the victims
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2014 94 percent of U.S. soybeans, 93 percent of corn and 90 percent of cotton will be produced from genetically modified plants...
Nixon’s negative campaigns
Harvey and I were chowing down on an excellent plate of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...
A Nobel Prize for Assange? How about in chemistry?
Someone in the Russian government last week (speaking anonymously so he could speak frankly, ironically enough) suggested that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ alpha drip, deserved a Nobel Prize...
The secret sauce
In the 228 years since the United States Constitution was ratified there have been dozens of attempts to emulate it.
Nations all over the world...
How to increase Colorado’s water supply
President Barack Obama gave a speech last week in California, which is enduring the worst drought in its recorded history, and he called on the country to rethink how it deals with water...
China’s new cyber totalitarianism
Human Rights Watch has released a report on human rights abuses in the world’s largest totalitarian state — the People’s Republic of China. And...
Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators
Anti-fracking activists have got their shorts in a knot because pro-fracking activists have been shadowing some of their Initiative 97 petition circulators and urging...
Reducing the budget
A couple of weeks ago President Obama challenged Republicans who are calling for less federal spending and a smaller federal government to state exactly what they would cut...
Why the chattering classes don’t get Trump
America’s political and journalistic establishments still can’t figure out the Trump phenomenon...
The president’s astonishing chutzpa
President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...
Hug the children, bill their countries
Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...
