https://publicintegrity.org/author/liz-essley-whyte/ How do you imagine most bills are constructed in state legislatures in America? Is it by one aggressive lawmaker having a novel idea and drafting the bill from scratch for their fellow legislators to review and vote on? That’s one way, but increasingly there is a trend of policy plagiarism or cut and paste …
https://www.amazon.com/RIP-GOP-America-Dooming-Republicans/dp/1250311756 Stanley Greenberg, the respected Democratic pollster, has seen enough in the data to suggest that the revenge of the ‘New America’ is just around the corner. And the evidence is in the blue wave of 2018 and the growing intensity of those who feel scorned, demoralized and bitter about the Trump era. His …
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/mark-perry/ The military has a recruitment problem that it doesn’t want to talk about. It’s an open secret that may be one of the nation’s great defense vulnerabilities going forward. Yet those who attribute it to long deployments, pay issues, methods of marketing to young people may all mask an even greater problem in society …
https://www.wildhood.com/ Coming of age can be a trying time both for those going through it and those trying to help adolescents make the journey into adulthood as safe and satisfying as possible. In the animal kingdom, it turns out, there are many commonalities among species in that regard. In the book ‘Wildhood’, Dr. Barbara …
http://www.marcedelman.com/ In recent years, the calls for the National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) to relax its rules prohibiting athlete pay have grown louder and louder. The argument is that student-athletes should share in revenues of college sports because they are a ‘product’ that so many others, like coaches, television networks and advertisers, are benefiting from …
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/books/the-prosperity-paradox-how-innovation-can-lift-nations-out-of-poverty/ Starving children on street corners, Slums without adequate clean water and sanitation. A sense of hopelessness in the air that is almost palpable. We, Americans, are moved by these scenes and should be. The question is whether traditional anti-poverty programs and foreign aid can really ameliorate these conditions over the long term. Or whether …
https://www.buckinstitute.org/lab/campisi-lab/ The answer is no. At least, given the real science of anti-aging as it exists today. The true goal of real scientists is to improve the health span, not necessarily the life span. Now, mind you, there is a great deal of work going on in labs throughout the world on the subject and …
https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Appetites-Stories-Women-Obsession/dp/1501188887 The statistics tell us that men more often than not are both the perpetrators and victims of violent assault and murder. Yet if you look at the audience for the growing number of media outlets devoted to it, women are obsessed with it. Movies, TV shows and networks, books and podcasts may have trouble …
https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Fantasy-High-Stakes-DraftKings-ebook/dp/B07LC9CCH3 Like two superheros, the back story behind the start up war of FanDuel and DraftKings is fantastical and the characters larger than life. Perhaps more compelling is the explosion they set off in fantasy sports and legalized gambling in America. We have just begun to feel the ripples as state after state is getting …
https://www.politico.com/staff/timothy-noah : ‘Our leaders, our electorate and our hallowed system of government itself are extremely old’, so begins a compelling article by Timothy Noah on politico.com. And while age can be a virtue, when accompanied by wisdom and experience, it can also define the issues and interests a society chooses to be most concerned about. …