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Who Are Those 73 Million Trump Voters?
Democratic Unity
How We Won the Cold War
The Public be Damned
The Green New Deal is Our Moment
The Coronavirus Message for Climate
Back to Normal from Covid-19
Short and Long Term Issues for Climate Change
The True Cost of CO2
The Coronavirus and the Limits of Capitalism
The Next 5G
The Crisis of our State of the Union
We Just Lost the Trade War with China
Regulation
Trump the Firebug in China Phase 1
Irrelevance
Random Thoughts to Start the Year
What Matters for Climate Change
Lessons From the British Election
American Fascism in the World
The End of Democracy
Waiting is Losing in China and North Korea
Depression: Yes or No
On Climate—We Have to Beat Trump or Nothing Else Matters
Warren’s Medical Plan Competes with Climate Action
Inslee’s Plan in the Green New Deal
Reasons For Pragmatism
Dealing with China
Thinking About Manufacturing
Some Points on Climate
Fixing Capitalism
Exported and Armed Prohibition
The Nightmare World of Our Making
Weakness and Strength
The Tariff Tax
For Sanity on China
Software
Let’s Just Do Immigration
Losing by Bullying in China and Elsewhere
More To Say About China
A Story that Ought to be Told
Post 9/11 Consequences to Remember
Prosperity in Today’s Economy
The Unreceived Message of the College Admissions Scandal
For Climate It’s Not GND versus CCL
The Epiphany of the Right
An Israeli-Palestinian Fairy Tale
Questions for Democrats
Climate Change is Not Complicated
Getting Productive with China
Saving the Country
This is the USA?
Don’t Pretend This Election is Normal
Unity and Divisiveness
Never-Never Land
Kavanaugh Nightmares
Losses of War
A Logical Trap
Tesla as Example
Thinking Back to the 2008 Crash
Small Bits of Reality
NY Times: Inviting the Next Financial Crisis
It’s Always the Elites and the Foreigners
If Not Now When?
Learning from Apple
Thrashing our Way to the Brink
The Firebug in Korea and China
Instead of Trade Wars
The Trump Economy
Mid-Term Diplomacy
Trump’s Fabulous Foreign Policy Triumphs
The Trade Wars Are a War on Trade
Tesla and Ice
Keeping Score on North Korea
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Update on Climate Change
Fake News
Yet Another Gift to China
The Great Trump Korean Trade Deal
Political Correctness, False News, and the Attack on Education
Guns
For the Economy—Stop the Tantrums and Look
Another Gift to China
The Budget and the Real World
What the New Tax Law Means
The State of Our Future
Open for Business at Davos
DACA is Not a Sideshow
A Net Neutrality Catalog
Illusion and Reality
Shock and Awe
Inequality
The Foreigners Threatening America
Big Brother
Why Isn’t the Tax Cut Bipartisan?
Some History and Consequences of a Tax Cut
Finding Reality
This is it!
Private Sector Fantasies
The NFL and the EPA
No Plan
Strange Revisionist History
Living with the Dark Side
Hurricane Harvey and the Burden of Proof
For Sanity on North Korea
Minding the Store
Limits of Charlottesville
The Phony Issue of Globalization
Forecasting Climate Change