October 11, 2019
A visit to a doggie doo-dah plastic bags maker in China illustrates the shift from Chinese manufacturing to Vietnam and Indonesia.
October 3, 2019
While library late fees are supposed to be incentives that encourage us to return books, instead they have unintended consequences.
September 27, 2019
As New York's hourly minimum wage started heading toward $15 while Pennsylvania's remained at $7.25, some of the results were surprising.
September 17, 2019
With plant-based foods growing like weeds, we have to decide if their vegan names should reflect the foods that they resemble.
September 6, 2019
For fantasy sports games to be legal in states where online gambling was prohibited, they had to prove whether luck or skill mattered more.
August 22, 2019
About much more than sauces and salads, tomato tradeoffs take us to science and supermarkets, history and trade agreements.
August 14, 2019
Looking at the retail tilt of the newest round of Trump administration tariffs, we would see that woman will be hit harder than men.
August 12, 2019
Involving us individually and as a community, sugary drink taxes create nudges that result in a long list of costs and benefits.
August 7, 2019
With plastic straw bans and request-a-straw rules, people and places are adjusting with new kinds of straws and some surprising innovations.
July 31, 2019
The crisis farmers are facing with plunging tart cherry prices takes us to big questions about tariffs and federal marketing agreements.
July 24, 2019
With the depletion of the Highway Trust Fund, Congress needs to decide if its new funding sources will include a pay-by-the-mile tax that charges EVs.
July 14, 2019
Whereas we moved from many time zones to four during the 19th century, now, with globalization, we should switch to coordinated universal time for everyone.