Letters 鈥� Your Voice 鈥� April 22
April 22, 2026 | 1 MIN READ
Regarding Trump and the Constitution
Sunday, May 17, 2026
May 12, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
For a bunch of unremarkable warehouses, they’re generating a lot of controversy. Data centers — low-slung facilities that house the server racks and energy systems that underpin the digital economy — have become a heated issue on the campaign trail. Politicians from both pa...
May 12, 2026 | 4 MIN READ
Most Saturday mornings, I stroll half a mile downhill from my tiny apartment in a bosky part of San Francisco to a farmers market. My usual reverie of anticipation (about carrots with their tops attached, about the price of berries) was interrupted recently by the sight of three bodies....
May 12, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
Half measures won’t fix ungulates problem
May 11, 2026 | 6 MIN READ
Intelligence agencies often complain that they are judged unfairly because you hear about their failures, not their successes. It’s hard to evaluate anything based on what didn’t happen — even when that’s really the important thing. The problem is just as salient for...
May 11, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
The Department of Energy (DOE) has increasingly become a vehicle for federal spending to shape energy markets and subsidize favored technologies. The result has been higher energy costs, growing deficits, and a sprawling bureaucracy that often fails to deliver useful services.
May 6, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
High oil prices proves the need for energy self-reliance
May 5, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
Artificial intelligence might be the most transformative technology ever devised. Exactly how its effects will work through the economy is impossible to say, but serious disruption of one kind or another seems likely. Millions of jobs — in the end, maybe most jobs — could radical...
May 5, 2026 | 6 MIN READ
The Iran war, which Donald Trump started in February for no good reason and which could flare up again at any moment, broke a streak of easy American military wins. This raises a question for other countries that the U.S. president might coerce or attack, from Cuba to Nigeria, and from Danis...
May 4, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
Most Americans think of the Bill of Rights as a bespoke 1789 creation for a nation that was, in the signature “Hamilton” lyric of Lin-Manuel Miranda, “young, scrappy and hungry.”
May 4, 2026 | 6 MIN READ
Acolleague recently emailed me a picture of a seemingly political gesture that was roiling her office and asked me what I thought. The picture was of a 10-by-3-inch sticker, openly affixed to an employee’s desk, stating “Make America Blue Collar Again” in big red, white and...
May 2, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
Praise for lawmakers who passed e-cigs bills
May 1, 2026 | 2 MIN READ
Has the county given up on fighting coqui frogs?
April 30, 2026 | 3 MIN READ
Putting trucking for Honua Ola in perspective