With climate change raising water levels, seaside homes on this Massachusetts island now have a nasty habit of “falling into the ocean.”
Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, are pushing a budget for next year that would chop IRS funding by $67 billion
This past Thursday night, just hours before the expiration of the United Auto Workers contract with Detroit’s Big Three, UAW president Shawn Fain...
Federal prosecutors last month charged the crypto currency CEO phenom Sam Bankman-Fried with committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in...
If Dustin Hoffman should ever do a remake of The Graduate, the classic 1967 film that launched his famed cinematic career, what might be the 2020s...
Do you have a good pension? Do you have any pension at all? Back in 1975, most Americans who worked for established employers could say that they do...
How far off the charts has compensation for America’s top corporate CEOs soared? Let’s use Peter Drucker as our reference point.Management...
How rich have America’s richest become? These days, we like to think we know the answer. After all, we get from investigators at ‘Forbes’...
The vision currently driving automation comes from our high-tech corporate giants, mostly in the United States and China, that are now laying out...
What makes a society civilized? In a word: limits. Civilized societies – to protect and enhance the greater good – set limits on how people...
Back in April 2017, only a few months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, one of world’s most prestigious medical journals, the London-based...
Remember that old joke they used to tell -- and maybe still do -- in luxury retail circles? The customer, precious product in hand, walks over to a...
A White House that muses openly about not counting votes. A Senate rushing to cement in place a fiercely conservative Supreme Court. We have plenty...
Do you know someone who’s died in a car crash? If you live in the United States, the odds say you probably do. We’ve been averaging over 40,000...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some welcome news late last month: Americans are living a tiny bit longer. In 2018, the...
Irrelevance can sometimes be liberating, and, at the United Nations in New York, folks have been feeling fairly irrelevant for quite some time...
What do the folks at the US Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing...
Should we care how much wealth our wealthiest are grabbing? The flacks who seek deep-pocket favor have a ready response. Of course not, they tell...
As anyone who keeps a household budget can attest, the unexpected happens all the time. A refrigerator evaporator fan motor fails. Some part on your...
We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or we fry. That’s the conclusion of another new blockbuster study on climate change, this one from the...
Two meticulously sourced – and deeply disturbing – warnings about our shared global future have appeared over the past week. One has terrified...
The United States ended the 20th century on a roll – for the rich. Between 1973 and 2000, the nation’s most prosperous 1 percent tripled their...
No single statistic, in isolation, tells us particularly much. Numbers only gain real meaning when we compare them. Take, for instance, the figure...
