News Companion

News reports tend to emphasize the negative about any change proposed for or imposed on society, deepening the challenge of altering the sta...

Convention holds that our political axis extends left and right from the moderate center in opposite directions, with extreme left and right...

The New York Times is one of the bedrocks of news, which makes it hard to understand why its opinion page would show a weakness for ill-info...

"If a problem can't be solved, enlarge it" -- attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower After a showing of Martin Luther King'...

This was the summer that Taste of Honey got Daft Punked. If you wonder what others have been doing with their summer, the 120 million hits o...

Today, August 28, 2013, marks fifty years since Martin Luther King delivered his "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Linc...

It's often said that a tax on carbon is both urgently needed and politically impossible. One reason for the political roadblock is num...

Being a problem solver, my first impulse upon seeing a headline like (" Sinkhole Causes Florida Resort to Partially Collapse " ) i...

The Aug. 1 CNN headline read "Judge sentences Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to life, plus 1,000 years". I'm sure many peop...

Some thoughts on "The Beach Builders" , a New Yorker article by John Seabrook that asks the question, "Can the Jersey Shore b...

A surprise to look at the June 26 Trenton Times and see a sheriff admit to taking bribes "from people seeking positions or promotions...

One reason climate change does not get mentioned in day to day reporting of events such as droughts and floods is the persistence of the ste...

A critique of the news media's abdication of its role in correcting widespread misperceptions (from a 12/12/12 letter to a local newspap...

News of the apocalyptic air pollution in and around Beijing, China took me back to family road trips around the south side of Lake Michigan ...

One of the less productive responses to the reality of human-caused climate change is the effort people expend not to think about it. A diff...

Views on the 22nd Amendment's ban on presidents seeking a third term, like views on Senate filibuster rules, will vary according to who ...

As Congress passed $9.7 billion in storm relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy today, 67 Republicans in the House voted against the measure....

David Brooks, the ubiquitous political commentator, gave a fluid talk at Princeton University this past Monday evening, as the audience over...

Steve Fetter, a professor of public policy at University of Maryland, spoke to a packed room at Princeton University today about his experie...

The election results came more as a relief than reason for jubilation. For those living in New Jersey, the long campaign had registered as a...

Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin gave a presentation at Princeton University this week on the politics of climate and energy. In 200...