The Tesla Cybertruck, with its bold design and polarizing presence, has been a source of both fascination and frustration since it hit the streets. Since […]
The Economics Behind “Free” Apps
Open your phone, and almost everything feels free. Messaging, maps, social media, photo storage, news, fitness tracking, and even sophisticated creative tools often cost nothing upfront. This apparent generosity has become so normal that many people rarely pause to ask how these services are funded. The answer is not mysterious. It is structural. “Free” apps are not gifts. They are business models built around attention, data extraction, behavioral prediction, and scale. What users experience as convenience is supported by an economic system that treats personal information and human engagement as raw materials. Understanding that system matters because it explains why…
Voter ID Is a Solution Without a Problem
Claims of widespread voter fraud have become a familiar feature of American politics. They surface before elections, spike after close results, and are often used to justify new restrictions on voting. The underlying narrative is simple: without tighter rules, elections cannot be trusted. The evidence tells a very different story. Decades of research, court findings, and election data consistently show that voter fraud in the United States is extraordinarily rare. At the same time, strict voter identification laws create real barriers for eligible voters, disproportionately affecting women, low-income citizens, people of color, the elderly, students, and people with disabilities. This…
Why Medicine Is Losing Its Workforce
For years, headlines have warned about clinician shortages as if the problem were purely demographic. Too many older doctors are retiring. Too few nurses are graduating. Too many patients are aging into higher medical need. Those pressures are real, but they are not the whole story. The deeper issue is more uncomfortable. Modern medicine is pushing people out. Not just through retirement, but through burnout, moral injury, workload compression, and an administrative apparatus that increasingly treats clinical labor as a billable, auditable, optimized commodity. The result is a workforce pipeline that leaks at every stage. People leave bedside nursing. Physicians…
Voter ID Is a Solution Without a Problem
Claims of widespread voter fraud have become a familiar feature of American politics. They surface before elections, spike after close results, and are often used…
The Myths of U.S. Immigration and What the Evidence Actually Shows
Immigration debates in the United States rarely fail for lack of passion. They fail because a handful of persistent myths flatten a complex reality into…
The Economics Behind “Free” Apps
Open your phone, and almost everything feels free. Messaging, maps, social media, photo storage, news, fitness tracking, and even sophisticated creative tools often cost nothing…
The Internet Isn’t Decentralized Anymore
The Internet was built to route around failure. That origin story is not just nostalgia. It describes a set of architectural instincts that shaped how…
The Difference Between Scientific Evidence and Scientific Headlines
If you follow science through news coverage alone, it can feel like reality changes every week. Coffee is bad, then good. Eggs are dangerous, then…
Why “The Science Is Settled” Is Almost Always Misleading
“The science is settled” is one of the most common phrases in modern public debate and one of the most misunderstood. People use it to…
The Fantasy of the Free Market
Few ideas in modern economics are as powerful, or as misleading, as the notion of the “free market.” In popular imagination, an unregulated market is…
Debt Isn’t a Moral Failure; It’s an Economic Strategy
Debt is often treated as a character test. If you have too much of it, the story goes, you must have lived beyond your means,…
Why Medicine Is Losing Its Workforce
For years, headlines have warned about clinician shortages as if the problem were purely demographic. Too many older doctors are retiring. Too few nurses are…
Why Healthcare in the U.S. Is Designed Around Billing, Not Healing
American healthcare does not feel like a single system because it is not one. It is a dense web of payers, contracts, benefit designs, coding…