Danish Plan

Me and the Idea Fairy had almost finished airing out the house when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon,...

In the course of reporting that BP had finally stopped the flow of oil in its Macondo well, a CNN reporter casually referred to the blowout as “the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.” Obama said the same thing a couple of months ago. They are both full ...

I don’t for a second doubt that any of the 22 candidates currently running for President — 17 Republicans and five Democrats — could run the country if they happened to get elected. This isn’t because they are political geniuses. It’s because the genius of the ...

And now, the next president of the United States! David Walker...

About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, 88 percent of the 2011 U.S. corn crop consists of genetically engineered varieties — either herbicide-tolerant types like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, or insect-resistant types ...

A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...

It would be wrong to say that nothing came out of the Copenhagen conference. Just ask the Chinese...

For some reason California’s outgoing Governor Jerry Brown started his Nov. 11 press conference on the state’s wildfires by calling them “the new abnormal.” Why...

According to a story in the Des Moines Register and reports elsewhere, it seems that a lot of the world’s anti-GMO propaganda is being...

The most charitable thing that can be said about Barack Obama’s graduation address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is that it was silly...

The Washington press corps is shocked, shocked that Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman (aka MBS) may have ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, a...