A month has passed since the Virginia earthquake and it looks like the Washington Monument is going to be closed indefinitely until a team of engineers can check every stone.  The WaPo reports: Officials said a “debris field,” made up mostly of mortar that had fallen during the quake, had been found at the base […]

The situation in Greece is so bad – with sovereign debt at 150% of GDP and economic growth forecasts continuing to fall – that economists and foreign policy thinkers are scrambling to think through the implications of default. What would happen if a bankrupt Greece dropped the euro? Ian Bremmer at the Financial Times explains […]

In San Francisco, the jobs of the future are already beginning to appear. A new company called cater2.me has gone into business providing a variety of catered lunches to businesses too small to afford a chef of their own. The New York Times reports: It’s true that these companies, which are paying engineers $100,000 or […]

While the government has been spending billions of dollars to produce a handful of sickly green jobs without much staying power, a veritable gusher of ‘brown’ jobs in traditional mining and energy extractive industries is on the brink of rejuvenating the American economy.That at least is what Joel Kotkin and his associates have discovered.  Looking […]

The issue of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has been festering now for about two decades. It shows no signs of going away. The issue is based on real facts, more of which keep coming out. At the same time, the issue is fanned by a secular media culture which relishes it with a good […]

Anybody hungry for a dose of good news should go to Bill Glahn’s blog for a cheery story on America’s growing energy independence. Just when it seems that all the news is bad, a ray a light peeks through the clouds.  Our dependence on foreign oil, a bugaboo for Presidents dating back to Nixon, has […]

The Senator John McCain that so many of us admired before his deeply uninspiring presidential campaign in 2008 is back, this time waging war on unauthorized and inefficient government spending on defense projects.  The Vietnam war hero is specifically targeting the Senate Appropriations Committee, or, as he put it, “a handful of senior appropriators and […]

It feels like the bad old days of the Bush administration as the whole world lines up to criticize American leadership — or the lack thereof. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the US-backed idea to leverage the EU bailout fund so that the same amount of money could bail out bigger debt disasters was […]

Economic growth is increasingly taking place at the technological frontier. We need policies that keep pushing that frontier forward.

How U.S. ethanol policy creates global food insecurity.