Zombie Politics

The cover piece for this week's Christian Science Monitor is truly splendid. Africa is experiencing a quiet solar revolution and brushi...

Most of the news that is heavily reported these days is bad news. There are number of reasons for this but the main one is that bad news sel...

Here is a piece from the Good Reads section of the Christian Science Monitor. The Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut brought a delu...

For all the talk about how broken our health care system is, the world as a whole is actually doing much better than in the past. Some exam...

Get used to a new word for 2013: reshoring. Conventional wisdom says that American jobs are flying like crazy over to China. But a recent...

For all of my crabbing on here, the world is actually getting to be a much better place in which to live. There's a lot of good news out...

My main source of news, The Christian Science Monitor, recently posted a wonderful summation of the EuroZone economic crisis. As is often t...

Yesterday, the Patriotic Millionaires, a growing group of wealthy individuals who are demanding that Congress raise their taxes, went to Con...