President Mike Pence? The question is way ahead of where we are. There’s no solid reason to expect President Trump will leave office before his term is done, whether by ...
Even before the latest startling development, I’d bet my West Virginia neighbors that President Donald Trump’s support will soon collapse and, regardless of whether he m...
We have seen the enemy, and it is the robot.
A wave of fear over automation is driving dire predictions about robots rendering swaths of Americans unemployable and has c...
At 2:05 p.m. in the White House press briefing room last Tuesday, May 9, the very first words out of Sean Spicer’s mouth were: “Sorry I’m late, wrapping up some business...
For the past couple of years, the most important word in American politics has been the worst — “rigged.”
Emanating from slang back in the 17th century, developing into ...
The death on May 8 of Allan Meltzer, 89, deprives the country of one of its most influential economists in the past half-century. A professor at Carnegie Mellon Universi...
When Donald Trump was merely a real estate mogul, he exaggerated flamboyantly and reporters considered it charming: He promoted Trump Tower as a 68-story building, even ...
Scientists and philosophers occasionally contemplate the tiny tolerances that make life on earth possible. Sometimes they refer to our globe’s orbit as the “Goldilocks Z...
Last week I was honored to be included on a panel discussion titled “The Search for Truth in an Age of Fake News.” Two real journalists, a tech entrepreneur, a neuroscie...
Globalization has gotten a bad rap. The Trump White House associates it with all manner of economic evil, especially job loss. The administration has made undoing the da...
