The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.