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Why is Trump sabotaging the US auto industry?

If Chinese leader Xi Jinping wanted to take down the U.S. auto industry — and he probably does — he couldn’t have a better helper than Donald Trump. The American president’s tireless efforts to slow America’s shift to electricity-run transportation is a dream come true for China as ...

Is Trump’s Napoleon quote trolling?

The president of the United States posted a possibly apocryphal quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte on social media Saturday: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” This is an indefensibly stupid thing for a president to say — at least absent the sort of situation ...

What’s on your plate?

I tried meat grown in a lab. It tastes like ... well ... meat. I guess it is meat, but it’s not grown the normal way. Scientists extract meat cells from an animal and then grow them in a bioreactor, much like ones you see in a brewery. There, the cells divide again and again until you ...

Pushback against Trump/Musk

It’s not easy to steal the spotlight from two seasoned publicity lovers like President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, but Musk’s 4-year-old son X AE A-Xii, or “X” for short, made it look easy during his Oval Office visit. Now viral on the web, little X seemed to teach his dad a lesson I ...

Parents, overstressed and overburdened, need help

One day, when I was a new mother, I was offered a choice. I had a premature newborn, one who seemed to spit up every drop of milk he drank and who was incapable of sleeping anywhere other than in someone’s arms. Getting enough nutrition into his tiny stomach so that he could meet his ...

Getting rid of real change

President Trump has ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies to save money. It costs almost four cents to make one and as the president seeks to reduce federal spending, the penny is a good, if largely symbolic, target. The nickel is even more expensive. It costs nearly 14 cents ...