Wash Park Prophet

Who is winning and losing in the post-Trump 2.0 economy? Winning New York City (tech) San Francisco (finance and tech) San Jose (tech) Losin...

Experience tells us which economic theories are right and which are not, often with unexpected results. * In theory, a higher minimum wage s...

As interpreted the U.S. Constitution has various problems: * The insurrection clause was gutted by making it not self-executing. * President...

I've said it before, but it remains true that while there is not one right answer for the policies that democracies should adopt, there ...

Ms Sheinbaum’s government says Mexico’s murder rate has come down by 32% in the year since she took office. Analysis by The Economist confi...

The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills . . .  At our campus, the pictu...

My wife and son ran the NYC marathon together (they were just one minute short of getting a mention in the New York Times for it). It wasn...

The federal government shutdown is on day 26, the second longest of all time, and the record holder for person-days of federal employee furl...

A video at this link explains the concept of an " Extinction Burst ". People go into a rage when something that they used to be re...

The number one trigger for military coups is the military not getting paid, which the U.S. is doing right now. And, when Trump has called up...

  For those of you who are literal minded, this is a metaphor.

  In and of itself, this is a relatively minor incident in the overall sweep of Trump 2.0 politics. But Catholics are the largest voting blo...

We are at 14 days of the shutdown (the third time that the government has shut down while Trump was President, including the longest shutdow...

 

The demise of the TypePad blog hosting site has obliterated many of the blogs in my sidebar.

 This could have been pretty cool. Around the turn of the 20th century, inexpensive meat, a product of American prosperity that had long bee...

The Ukraine War seems to have reached a turning point. Ukrainian attacks on the Russian oil and gas infrastructure, and on coal and natural ...

Keep fighting! Every week (there are rare days of respite) there is news so bad that I vacillate between outrage and despair over the future...

ICE is rotten to the core. Basically everyone who works for it is a corrupt, racist, bad cop, with no regard for the rule of law who lacks m...

Autism may be related to the human specific evolution of higher intelligence:  Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linke...