…going to bring down rising prices for consumers. “Foxconn: iPhone maker bets on electric truck firm Lordstown Motors,” BBC News, Peter Hoskins & Monica Miller. It is deepening its investment…

AB is about a day late on this commentary by Peter. Still a great commentary and read. Why the Battle over Electing a House Speaker by Peter Dorman @ Econospeak…

…“defend our democracy.” For incumbent members of Congress, “working together to get things done” primarily takes the form of rubber-stamping ever-bigger Pentagon budgets, backing US military intervention abroad, and favoring privatization of…

…freight, often from giant warehouses to stores. They are big and getting bigger as companies try and get more out of each driver. They are often too big for cities, getting…

…generation growth exceeds global demand growth, indicating a slow decline in coal-based generation while natural gas remains stable. In 2028, renewable energy sources account for 42% of global electricity generation,…

…causing more resistant bacteria.  More theoretical concepts, such as global warming, dating the age of the Earth, or the Big Bang creation of the universe met with greater suspicion. Some scientists…

…the yachtsmen at the club, his boat “looked exactly like she had been doing what she had been doing,” and they wordlessly resented this easy-going solo circumnavigator who threatened their…

…Trump’s alienating our neighbors, attempting to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and threatening to annex Greenland and Panama were stupid unless you are a con artist wannabe-emperor of pax americana…

…swept under an ever-growing rug. Names are redacted not for the victims, but for the victimizers. But some governments do still care about common decency. We’re seeing from them what…

…the government in the service of your own practice of religion. But if the government is going to allow non-religious groups to do something in particular, it must allow religious…