Solar is cheaper than ever. Retail power is more expensive than ever. You see where we’re going with this. — Full disclosure: this article was written in California’s Coachella Valley, a sun-baked slice of the Sonoran Desert which receives approximately 75 billion hours of sun per year. As the world’s climate screams towards weird Ghostbusters II dialogue territory, it’s well past the time for moderate action. It’s substantially too late…

Some Americans (idiots) think the private sector can do it better and cheaper—so let’s buy some and see how it goes — Medicare For All is an exceedingly popular policy proposal. Recent polling shows 54% of all Americans support it. 21% of Republicans support it, too—which is graded on a curve, as half of Republican voters rooted for the murder cop. But hey: you can’t discount popularity. The reason we’re not living…

Consumers win, workers win, and tech dipshits are freed up to waste money on a different bad idea — The passage of Proposition 22 was an absolute disaster for labor in the Golden State. Rideshare and gig delivery companies spent approximately 360 million Jack-in-the-Box tacos on their campaign to turn all their drivers into fleshy vending machines legally presumed to be in international waters (paraphrasing). “We love being independent…