| Mar 28, 2018 | Environment / HealthOK, I admit it, I’m a freeloader. My neighbors asked if I’d go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the “eco-friendly” service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost:...
| | Peace / SecurityI’m scared. I don’t have anything more savvy, or cool, or nuanced to say. I’m just scared. Since November 8, 2016, I’ve felt varying degrees of distress ranging from unease to panic. But whatever Donald Trump has done while in office — however...
| | Economy / BusinessToday’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as geniuses of modern innovation. But innovation for what purpose? After all, some of society’s most inventive minds are flimflammers, Ponzi-schemers, gamers, and embezzlers —...
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| Mar 21, 2018 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In OtherWords, Brown University expert Stephanie Savell runs the numbers on the human and economic costs of that decision, and they’re simply stunning. Every American, she writes, has basically...