…from red states. In fact, there’s a history of affirmative action for white kids in admissions that goes back a century: In the early 20th century, Harvard and other Ivy…

…without any accompanying reasoning, John Roberts ended almost a century of constitutional order. Exercising tremendous restraint, Chief Justice Roberts managed not to write “Executor? I hardly knew her!” on this…

The passing of Jim Watson, co-discoverer of DNA structure, got me thinking about the other great discoveries of the 20th century. Without consulting Google AI, I came up with these:…

…description of the Monsanto House of the Future, which beckoned visitors to tour its all-plastic interior at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. It was a beacon of mid-century modernity in Tomorrowland…

…Island. But in the 20th century, there were just four confirmed records of this tiny mammal: two in 1958, one in 1984, and the last in 1985. The species’ latest conservation…

…explaining the role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers. “BOOM: Congress Imposes Public Utility Rules on UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna,” Big – Matt Stoller Last August, the storied century old pharmacy chain…

…of 20th-century progress.  Its decisions haven’t merely reversed decades of economic and social compromise and achievement; through rulings enabling unlimited political spending and undermining democratic participation, the Roberts Court has…

…century states haven’t limited corporate powers to do much of anything. Yet corporations are creatures of state law. States create and define corporations. Whatever powers corporations have come from state decisions to grant them…

…of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Manifest Destiny of 18th and 19th century America as drivers of the Native American ethnic cleansing in what became the continental US. This particular post…

…Outlook” by Lisa Dettling and Luke Pardue. Published in “Demographic Headwinds: The Economic Consequences of Lower Birth Rates and Longer Lives” by the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, February 2026. The…