The year 1968 began with an announcement in a magazine that probably few in the Copper Country read. It carried huge implications, though, for the now tottering mining district. On Jan. 1, 1968, Chemical & Engineering News published an article titled: Universal Oil Products, Calumet & ...

“Pounced with fire on flaming roads, using ideas as my maps,” – Bob Dylan The territory I was set to explore was imprinted in relatively dark lines on the back pages of my mind. I had it filed away, up there in the dusty old reference section. These recollections I stored there were ...

To understand where our nation's health policy currently stands, and where it is headed, one event enlightens our thinking: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent speech before the World Health Assembly, in which he outlined in stark detail the specific reasons why ...

MSNBC host and PBS pundit Jonathan Capehart has a new memoir out. It's titled "Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home." It sounds like the first lesson is this: a "Black Man" gets to dictate history, and no one is allowed to offer a "reality check" or else they're "robbing ...

As the Senate takes up the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (Donald Trump's name for it) passed by the House last week, there's finally some discussion of the national debt. That's because the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion over the next decade to the current debt: $37 trillion, or more than ...

Has Donald Trump declared war on Albert Einstein? "America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain," The Economist warns. As soon as the Department of Homeland Security announced Harvard University would no longer be allowed to enroll foreign students, the Eurasia Group's Ian ...