Donald Trump campaigned as a populist, vowing to raise up “the forgotten man.” This message allowed him to win a surprising amount of support from the working class. Unfortunately, it was a con. Trump’s actions in the first two months of his new administration have demonstrated that he ...
Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? The tech bros are taking turns predicting the future not just for themselves but for everyone. With politicians who think the Cloud is just bad weather calling the shots, this question haunts me. AI is advancing exponentially faster than ...
Fellow op-ed contributor Gary Stout recently referenced my assertion that "the Democratic Party is hurtling toward irrelevance" and acknowledged that I had provided evidence to support this claim. So far, so good. However, Stout then veered off course, alleging that "Republicans gleefully ...
Those trained in the humanities and social sciences (not to mention the rest of us) now have a new political topic to study and about which to argue. Elon Musk recently took a break from downsizing the government to appear on the popular Joe Rogan blog. He poured more gasoline on our ...
At the Feb. 27 House budget hearing for Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), state Rep. Josh Kail declared it “outrageous” that residents – including his constituents – have the right to petition the DEP for a change in environmental rules. As Acting ...
Economic inequality has grown in the U.S. since the 1980s. From 1970 to 2018, the share of income going to upper income households increased from 29% to 48%, while the share going to middle income households fell from 62% to 43%. CEOs get paid 344 times what the typical worker makes compared to ...
