R.I. Interfaith Coalition to Reduce Poverty: Budget shows promise, but more...
Budgets reveal a great deal about our values as a community - about who we are and who we want to become. Reflecting on...
France has had its 9/11. What happens next?
Paris is getting back to life as usual after Friday’s attacks, if you discount the armed police on the streets and a general sense...
Jump in the DeLorean, for a sunnier future
Wednesday is “Back to the Future” Day - Oct. 21, 2015, the date to which Marty McFly flew forward in the 1989 film “Back...
Sons and gun lovers in American culture
According to the Associated Press, the mother of the 26-year-old Oregon gunman who killed nine and injured nine “told investigators he was struggling with...
Why U.S. work ethic is a bigger issue for voters
A Bloomberg poll on the 2016 presidential horse race found that 72 percent of the people surveyed said the U.S. isn’t as great as...
Scandals can’t stop the NFL’s money machine
Turns out, Deflategate was actually about Spygate. And NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s mishandling of two of football’s most notorious recent scandals has somehow managed...
Congress wants to make your taxes more complicated
“Simplify, simplify,” urged Thoreau. No friend of taxation, he might have been envisioning the modern Internal Revenue Code. At roughly 3.7 million words, it’s...
No deal in Brady ‘Deflategate’ fight as court battle resumes
NEW YORK - Lawyers for New England Patriots’ Tom Brady and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell are back in court as a quick settlement of...
China’s currency devaluation can’t be good news
As you’ve no doubt heard, China has devalued its currency. The exchange rate between the yuan (also known as renminbi, or RMB) and the...
Hitchhiking can be dangerous, even for robots
So who killed hitchBOT? The friendly hitchhiking robot made it across Germany, the Netherlands and Canada with nary a scratch, its treks followed by...
