Urban commuters turn to bicycles and scooters as cities begin to reopen
Bicycling is on the rise in America in response to COVID-19. This means more significant bike sales and a greater use of bike-sharing and scooter-sharing apps and programs in large cities. Russell...
View ArticleOut of the fire
On Labor Day weekend, California National Guard Sgt. George Esquivel and his team flew their CH-47 Chinook into thick wildfire smoke to rescue families trapped in the burning woods near Fresno. The...
View ArticleA costly game
Record numbers of people have been out of work in the past six months, and millions more have had their hours and pay reduced. This is a tough time to justify a price hike, absent a shortage. Sure,...
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The stupidity of the intelligent
The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari, presents the work of a complicated man. Caeiro was born in Lisbon in 1889, but he spent most of his life...
View ArticleWhat would a world without Obamacare look like?
What would the healthcare landscape in the United States look like if the Supreme Court actually invalidated Obamacare? A few days after the November election, the Supreme Court will hear California...
View ArticleFlight test
Almost nobody is willing to get on an airplane these days, and the airlines hope they can lure them in with something of value: free coronavirus tests, which could help you avoid a two-week quarantine...
View ArticleWord of the Week: ‘Editorial’
One of the best books I have read this year is Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller. To explain the counterintuitive suggestion of its title, Miller romps through the story of how early biologists...
View ArticlePennsylvania manufacturer thrives, if only it can find good workers
FAIRVIEW, Pennsylvania — The instant you walk into the massive, 750,000-square-foot PHB Industries tool and die plant, the smells and sounds of the buzz and hum of machines and people making things...
View ArticleA Gilbert and Sullivan war in the Caucasus
The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is like something out of a comic novella, a Ruritanian scrap over sterile mountains. Three years ago, I visited the disputed region for the first time traveling with...
View ArticleTechnology that will end the turgid climate debate
In a year that has brought us a pandemic, a steep economic recession, and widespread urban rioting, there hasn’t been much to celebrate. But little noticed in the maelstrom of news events has been a...
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