Culture of Work
Penna Dexter House Republicans proposed the Limit, Save, Grow Act as an attempt to pair modest reductions in spending growth with approval of an increase in the debt limit. The legislation includes re...
Choking Cryptocurrency
Kerby Anderson This administration is choking cryptocurrency. That is the conclusion that members of Congress and former prosecutors have mentioned. A few weeks ago, I quoted former member of Congress...
Artificial Intelligence
Kerby Anderson Bill Gates recently announced that “the age of AI has begun.” Elon Musk along with more than a thousand industry experts have written an open letter calling for a pause in developing sy...
Children of Liberal Parents
Kerby Anderson Dr. Leonard Sax holds a PhD in psychology and has been a family doctor for nearly 34 years. He said he never saw a connection between politics and parenting, until now. “Left-of-center...
Social Security Debt
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month, the Social Security Board of Trustees released its 2023 report on the financial status of the Social Security Trust Fund, While the report did warn that finances had...
Classified Security
Kerby Anderson My commentary ten weeks ago on classified documents focused on the government’s problem of over-classification. The US government creates approximately 50 million classified documents e...
School Choice Resonates
Penna Dexter School choice: an idea whose time has come. Finally. It took Covid school closures that lasted way too long. Students lost ground in reading and, to a greater degree, in math. Remote scho...
Good Guys with Guns
Kerby Anderson Mercedes Perez crashed her car into another car on a street in San Antonio. She then jumped out with her gun blazing away at neighbors who came out to see what happened. She killed the...
Climate Change Graphs
Kerby Anderson “The global discussion about climate change has become quite hysterical.” That is how Bjørn Lomborg begins his commentary on “Life after Climate Change.” He has always said that climate...
National Conversation
Kerby Anderson One of the standard clichés surfacing these days when a controversial topic is mentioned, is that we need to have a national conversation about (fill in the blank). Christian Schneider...
America’s Cities
Kerby Anderson What is the future of America’s cities? The question is relevant because of a recent election and a recent article. Two weeks ago today, Chicago voters elected Brandon Johnson as their...
De-Dollarization
Kerby Anderson The US dollar has been the reserve currency of the world since the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944. The dollar has been the currency of international trade and a global unit of account....