2025-12-30 20:00:08
I’m going to say something and then I’m going to duck: Being a member of Congress is a taxing profession that doesn’t pay nearly enough based on the expectations and pressures of the job. It’s no wonder Democrats and Republicans are fleeing Capitol Hill in droves.
2025-12-30 19:30:08
The best single measure of the health of the job market is probably the employment-population ratio for ages 25 through 54. The unemployment rate can be pushed downward when times are bad by people giving up on looking for jobs and upward when times are good by the opposite. The overall employment-population rate is being pushed downward at the moment by the aging of the US population. Prime-age Epop, as it’s known, avoids all those distortions.
2025-12-30 19:00:09
The government rolled back progress on the environment in at least 180 ways in 2025, and it’s just getting started.
2025-12-30 18:30:09
The unprecedented turmoil at the US’ top health agencies, under the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is sure to have a long-term impact on the well-being of Americans. Although Kennedy’s mantra has been to “Make America Healthy Again,” the most visible changes he and his allies have made within the Department of Health and Human Services in 2025 appear, in practice, designed to do the opposite.
2025-12-30 13:00:08
Jeremy Hunt is one of a select band of competent Conservative grandees — think Kenneth Clarke — who’ve come close to running the UK, but never sealed the deal. Chancellor of the Exchequer under two prime ministers, foreign secretary and the longest-serving health secretary, he failed twice to become Tory leader.
2025-12-30 12:30:08
Amelia Miller has an unusual business card. When I saw the title of “Human-AI Relationship Coach” at a recent technology event, I presumed she was capitalizing on the rise of chatbot romances to make those strange bonds stronger. It turned out the opposite was true. Artificial intelligence tools were subtly manipulating people and displacing their need to ask others for advice. That was having a detrimental impact on real relationships with humans.
