American Competitiveness: The New Untouchables or The New Half Truth?

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a superficially compelling case for reforming education in pursuit of American Competitiveness. But is he overstating its promise?

California Voters: Choose Your Pain May 19

What happens in California is by no means confined to California. The world's fifth largest economy depends on getting the answer right when voters go to the polls Tuesday, May 19. Californians need to reconsider the validity of popularly opposed propositions. Here's why:

Rethinking Globalism: Why We Need a Cell-Based Economy

What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one's country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate "efficiency" that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.