…to go sideways: Both were strongly positive in 2017. But for the last 18-19 months, both have with rare exception oscillated within 5% of that initial point, with the *slightest*…

…of the risk of unintended consequences. Good 21st century ideas 1) Hawaii hope. The idea is swift sure punishment works better than rare severe punishment. This is not a new…

…1970. It is not a case of rare birds getting rarer either as the hardest hit species include every day birds such as swallows, sparrows, and starlings. 90 percent of…

…is, just how rare, and how stable have Republics historically been? There are few antecedents for the experience of the US, because it has aspires to both be a Republic…

…from having a unique product with zero substitutes (pretty rare) to being open for business at a certain time and place (pretty common). Businesses often try to create monopoly power…

…won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” By Wednesday afternoon, Chief Justice John Roberts had the Supreme Court’s press office issue a stunningly rare…

…Trump has now repeatedly labeled it? Not much. Probably a majority of the talk in this past week and a half or so as this has ramped up has been…

…highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay…

…know instantaneously and with certainty everyone who is infected. In that case, we can selectively quarantine them, and this will cut off transmission. That is possible only in rare circumstances,…

…over policy failures are rare. But as an American I can’t help but be struck that Diab and his colleagues resigned over the deaths of some 200 Lebanese, while the…