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The Citizens Just Get On With It Apr. 07, 2020
You can tell we're getting restless — twitching and twisting and otherwise maneuvering ourselv... Read More
Our Devices Getting Creepier, Nosier and More Invasive Jan. 16, 2019
Electronic gadgets are now part of all of our lives — from the handheld devices we carry and c... Read More
Congress Needs to Understand Tech Issues; Shuttered Office of Experts Could Help Jan. 08, 2019
There once was a group of technology experts whose job was to educate members of Congress on cutting... Read More
Facebook Has Betrayed Users' Privacy More Than We Knew; Congress Must Act. Dec. 21, 2018
A New York Times probe has revealed the shocking true depths of Facebook's data mining of its users,... Read More
Don't Let Trump Hatred Thwart the School Choice Movement Nov. 22, 2018
The Detroit school board recently voted 6-to-1 to consider removing Dr. Ben Carson's name from one o... Read More
How About Medicare Advantage for All? Sep. 13, 2018
A resurfaced Barack Obama has uttered those three little words: "Medicare for all." Does that mean t... Read More
Thankful for Property Nov. 22, 2017
Ready for Thanksgiving? Before you eat that turkey, I hope you think about why America has turkeys f... Read More
Schools Failing Taxpayers at More Than $18,000 Per Year Aug. 10, 2016
In Philadelphia, where the Democratic Party held its national convention, the public schools spent a... Read More
Reduce the Hurdles to Private Investment in Infrastructure Jun. 23, 2016
The Congressional Budget Office has a new report looking at the return of federal investment in tran... Read More
Private Is Better May. 25, 2016
Our next president will almost certainly be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. But I take heart knowi... Read More
Airport Lines: Your Government Failing You May. 22, 2016
This summer, air travel is for people who expect to go to hell and want to know what it will be like... Read More
What Happens When Private Money Pays for Science? Jan. 07, 2016
As a select few accumulate massive fortunes, two schools of thought vie on how to funnel some of tha... Read More
Remembering the Life and Honoring the Legacy of Whitney Ball Aug. 20, 2015
Death focuses the mind. The recent passing of my dear friend Whitney Ball, who devoted her professio... Read More
Does Anyone Believe Hillary Clinton? Mar. 12, 2015
As Hillary Clinton took questions from the media about the personal email account she used as secret... Read More
Secrecy, Sex, Hillary and Bill Mar. 11, 2015
Secrecy is to Hillary Clinton what sex was to Bill Clinton. She has to have it. She doesn't care if ... Read More
Who Cares What Ideology Drives the High-Speed Train? Aug. 12, 2014
In Texas, a private company wants to build a bullet train joining Dallas and Houston. In California,... Read More
You Know Your Country Sucks When You Look Wistfully Back at Stalin Jul. 18, 2014
You can tell a lot about the state of a country by comparing the state of its public and private inf... Read More
The Barn
Jul. 09, 2014
Al Gore's Warnings About Inequality and Democracy Jun. 13, 2014
Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political conventi... Read More
Private Equity Is Becoming a Public Problem Jun. 06, 2014
A few weeks ago, a top official at the Securities and Exchange Commission reported on what he called... Read More
