On Tuesday, the leader of the free world will mount the dais in the U.S. House of Representatives to describe the state of the Union. He will speak of a country recovering from a pandemic, an economy

One of the reasons our society is on its last shaky legs might be that when our children are very young, we start lying to them. All of us do. First we fill their little brains with nonsense about San

Just about every large organization in this country, from retail companies to medical practices, has constructed an elaborate automated procedure that they call customer service. It is misnamed. Almos

I have developed a unified field theory that explains everything that is rancid in the industrial world. Excess wealth, I propose, is the ultimate source of the steady crapification of our political,

On Christmas Eve, the operator of the Eastern US power grid, one of the three grids in the country, declared a system-wide emergency as a savage winter storm brought high winds and sub-zero temperatur

She wailed the question to a passing TV helicopter as she struggled down a street in New Orleans, chest-deep in the filthy floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. The memory has stuck to my conscience like

COP27 the United Nations celebration of the 27th consecutive successful year in the war on climate change is wrapping up its second successful week. Some one hundred heads of state and 45,000 del

A funny thing happened while we were watching the bright shiny objects being juggled for our entertainment by the contestants in the bewitching midterm elections: the U.S. oil industry went code blue.

Progressives are comfortable and comforted by ridiculing the delusions of the far right in America, from the Big Lie about the 2020 election to the various conspiracy theories incubated by Q Anon

Florida and Hurricane Ian offer yet another example of the truism that profound misunderstanding of how things work, a.k.a. ignorance, can be deadly. The same people who often complain after a hurrica