Risks For Life Expectancy

Terrorism makes the biggest headlines, but among ten other risks to human life, it only reduces life expectancy 22 days. Continue reading →

US Suicides Rise

Suicides in the US continue to rise. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a record 120,000 Americans died from Continue reading →

Wages And Robots

Set aside the question of whether robots are taking or creating jobs. At least according to one study, robots are Continue reading →

US Billionaires Pay Less Taxes

The headline of billionaires paying less taxes probably isn’t a surprise. There have been so many storied tax cuts for Continue reading →

Growing US Income Inequality

Amidst so many other news stories it is easy to miss the fact that inequality continues to rise in the Continue reading →

American Bird Population Suffers

It’s happening to birds, too. In addition to recent reports about collapses in bugs, fish, and species in general (1, Continue reading →

Changing Energy Subsidies

Subsidies encourage policies that can be mutually exclusive. Renewable energy subsidies are noticeable because they visibly go to people who Continue reading →

Earth Overshoot Day 2019

July 29, 2019, that’s Earth Overshoot Day, the earliest we’ve estimated for how quickly our civilization uses up the Earth’s Continue reading →