Regulation, Huh? Who Would Have Thought?

In February, Future Crunch, that fount of “good news you probably didn’t hear about” and science news that is “indistinguishable from magic,” linked to a story reporting that, “The Mississippi River is the cleanest it’s been in more than a century.” It’s another powerful repudiation of the blanket opposition to government regulation common since theContinue reading “Regulation, Huh? Who Would Have Thought?”

What America Might Look Like

A Promised Land, the most recent of Barack Obama’s multiple memoirs, naturally provided lots of inside perspectives on familiar aspects and episodes from his background, campaigns and terms as President. The last event he described was the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and the lack of personal satisfaction he might have expected itContinue reading “What America Might Look Like”