There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

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Israel’s latest strike on Iran had nothing to do with dismantling the Iranian (civilian) nuclear program. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...

Are we all fools? Apparently, the US Forest Service and our politicians think so as we see exploding budgets for addressing wildfire that result in ...

At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a ...

In his inaugural speech, South Korea’s recently elected President Lee Jae-myung declared that ‘no peace is too expensive; it is always better than war’.

"Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the ...

Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all stripes— can't seem to get enough of the era when ...

Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should former Cincinnati Reds player and manager Pete Rose be inducted into Baseball’s ...

There were dramatic scenes of protests in the streets of Los Angeles following a series of ICE raids on workplaces. According to numerous reports, the ...

In the annals of national suicide, the present dismantling of the American state will surely rank high. It may not reach the apogee attained by Russia in ...