When the 2012 presidential election season rolls around and the Republicans try to blame the Democrats for the Great American Credit Default (or near-default, if we're lucky), remember:
The notion that the House bill, rejected by the Senate in a short two hours tonight (with six Republicans and both independents joining all democrats), was a good-faith…
For a reminder of the big picture issue in health care, former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm's Sunday opinion piece in the Denver Post is well worth a look. Lamm has been writing about this issue since the mid-1990s, and federal deficit and spiraling costs have moved events increasingly into his philosophical sights.
The piece argues that…
Why do space missions go over budget? John Kelly of Florida Today did a solid summary of some of the key issues in his Saturday column, based, it looks like, on a Government Accountability Office report on the same topic. The key points are similar to those I made here based on my experience writing…
For those who had forgotten, The New Yorker's most recent issue has reminded us once again that it is America's best magazine. You've got Anthony Lane visiting Pixar, Malcolm Gladwell revising the revisionist history of Xerox PARC, and a raft of top writers riffing on Pakistan/Afghanistan, among other stories.
You have to read The New Yorker strategically. A thorough treatment…
The CU Center for Environmental Journalism forwarded a note with this link this morning, to a Wired.com article about how Al Gore and Push Up Press are aiming to "blow up the book." As someone who recently wrote a book and then converted it into Kindle and ePub formats, this caught my attention. Push Up…