Is All-Electric Inevitable?
Penna Dexter Last month the White House and the Consumer Product and Safety Commission denied that they’ve been working with climate groups to ban gas stoves after the GOP called them out on it. But,...
Excess Deaths and Retirements
Kerby Anderson As more research studies are done on the impact of the Covid pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, we are getting a better picture of what happened in America. Two studies look at excess d...
Great Outdoors
Kerby Anderson Teresa Mull wrote a fascinating article with an intriguing title: “Why lumberjacks are happy and you’re not.” A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey reported that lumberjacks and farmers a...
High Prices
Kerby Anderson Why are food prices so high, especially in places where there are few or no grocery stores? Phillip Longman tackles that economic problem in his article “Everyday High Prices.” He begin...
Social Media and Mental Health
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about social media and the teen brain. Today I want to talk about social media and its impact on teenagers’ mental health. An article in Axios reminds the reader that...
Social Media and the Brain
Kerby Anderson What is the effect of social media on the brain? Nicholas Carr made this observation fourteen years ago in an article in Atlantic. “Over the past few years, I’ve had an uncomfortable se...
Chinese Demographic Crisis
Penna Dexter New numbers from China’s National Bureau of Statistics show that the ruling Communist Party has gotten too much of what it wished for. In the late 1970s, in order to slow the country’s ra...
Cohabitation
Kerby Anderson Two decades ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead was on my radio program. At the time, she was one of the co-authors of a study done by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University that...
Pool of Siloam
Kerby Anderson The Israel Antiquities Authority and the City of David Foundation announced that the Pool of Siloam will soon be opened to the public. This is the first time in 2,000 years that anythin...
Socialism and Capitalism
Kerby Anderson A Pew survey from last year found that a significant number of Americans believe that socialism “gives all people an equal opportunity to be successful.” A quarter (23%) agree with this...
Unemployment and NILFs
Kerby Anderson The final report for 2022 from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics was positive for the country and for the Biden administration. They estimated that 159 million Americans...
