In addition to driving down the stock market and driving up inflation, Trump tariffs will drive historical trading partners to shop with China and others outside the US. “While ASEAN and the GCC are unlikely to embrace Beijing to the extent that the Chinese government would like, they will be more receptive to Chinese overtures […]

From the time I started college at 18 until the time I retired at 69, I have been continuously in academia. Most of that time, I was a faculty member at a private university. For ten of those years, I was also Associate Dean for Research at my medical school. Once you’re on the inside, […]

French Official Who Suggested Taking Back Statue of Liberty Fires Back at Karoline Leavitt, and Slams ‘Shameful’ Trump Administration The French official who floated the idea of taking back the Statue of Liberty responded on Tuesday to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s shot at him. During Monday’s White House briefing, Leavitt was asked about French MEP Raphael […]

“The courts must stop Trump.” Opinion The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinski One of President Donald Trump’s greatest threats to democracy is his effort to take control over the spending of federal money. Under Article I of the Constitution, the spending power is vested in Congress. The president has no power to put additional conditions on […]

RFK Jr is touting the health benefits of beef tallow. Many people believe French fries cooked in beef tallow taste better, but healthier? Where did this idea come from? “Kennedy’s belief that using tallow could help “Make America Healthy Again” echoes a claim that has spread on social media about seed oils. Many believe because […]

Several years ago, I flew to Oklahoma city to serve on a panel reviewing state-funding research grant proposals. On the way in from the airport, a tornado touched down blocks from the hotel where I stayed and the meeting was held. When the meeting concluded a couple days later, I elected to stay an additional […]

The last thing or person the USPS needed was Louis DeJoy who lacked in knowledge of how the Post Service works. He then took it upon himself to implement change(s) before learning about the USPS systems and its people. We did not do such in manufacturing facilities. Lacking the knowledge of how the USPS works […]

Policy uncertainty, business investment, and consumer spending  – by New Deal democrat There’s no significant new economic news today, so let’s take a look at something of a topic du jour. In case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, “economic policy uncertainty” has spiked to a level never seen before aside from the moment the pandemic […]

One problem confronting the Trump agenda is that they treat the US like a closed system. That’s a problem for tariffs, since there are plenty of other markets for foreign goods besides the US. And it’s a problem for the recruitment and retention of the world’s finest minds. Until now, US universities were a magnet […]

In the film “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) has just graduated college. His prosperous parents and elders are anxious to see him do well in life, so they pepper him with career suggestions. In a swimming pool, Mr. McGuire tells Ben: “One word: plastics.” These days, plastics are in bad odor, primarily […]