There is a largely invisible pricing structure in the American health care system that dictates the types of medical procedures that are most valued and therefore best compensated. It affects the way you interact with the system day after day. In her short, but clear-eyed, dissection of why specialists and surgery are often the weapon …
If you’re paying attention these days, and in the wake of the NCAA basketball tournament, it’s hard not to notice how legalized gambling has crept into every facet of American life. You see it during sports games and with the full involvement of the leagues. You pass signs on the highway daily about games of …
When one of your friends tells you that pickleball is now the all-consuming passion in their life, what do you say? Every day, thousands and thousands more people pick up a paddle and get hooked on the fastest growing sport in the land. What’s all the fuss about? As a long-time tennis guy, I had …
It’s true. The headline in Fortune on-line screamed “The Treasury Just Declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it.” Well maybe the media missed it, but Congress and the President also have been asleep at the nation’s wheel on this issue for a very long time. The Treasury’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year …
The test scores for 4th and 8th graders in math and reading have not been great lately. The lag may be due to the time lost during the pandemic, but there may be another remnant of that time that is affecting things. As teachers hurried to adopt EdTech practices in that time, much gave way …
While some states are making it easier to vote, with automatic registration when you renew a driver’s license, or aggressive campaigns to bring voter registration to you, other states are working aggressively to restrict voting by requiring proof of citizenship, which goes beyond basic voter identification. And President Trump and the GOP-proposed SAVE Act is …
At the moment many of us see and use AI as a quicker and more comprehensive search engine. Truth is, it really is a game changer. So much so that our guest, Fred Voccola, author of “The Coming Disruption: How AI Will Force Organizations to Change Everything or Face Destruction,” says, (are you sitting down), …
Do you think very often, if at all, how it is that when you turn on a light switch in your home, instantly there is light. Given that there are so many factors upstream from your home–generating the power, transmitting it, distributing it and, finally, consuming it, the whole thing is pretty miraculous. And we’ve …
Have you ever started working on a puzzle and realized you had the whole picture wrong and needed to start over again? Well, our guest thinks that we’ve been so focused on ‘managing tons’ of emissions, with regulatory and accounting nightmares like offsets, that we’ve lost sight of the goal of developing a new economic …
There was a time when our guest was a diversity skeptic. He actually believed that Justice Clarence Thomas’s thinking on the matter had some validity. Then he began to explore the history of the concept and became a true admirer of the benefits that diversity brings to academic settings, the workplace, science laboratories and all …