by Paul Natinsky | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog
By PAUL NATINSKY Like the rest of the cuts by chainsaw, the 15-percent cap on indirect costs for National Institutes of Health projects is a sharp-edged reduction in spending. Purportedly targeted at reducing waste and inefficiency, the indiscriminate reduction belies...
by Paul Natinsky | Mar 26, 2025 | Blog
By PAUL NATINSKY Ten seconds is an eternity in a sprint event such as the 400 meter race in track and field. The race in question, at a recent high school event in Oregon, won by transgender 10th-grader Ada Gallagher, is the latest episode turning up the heat on...
by Paul Natinsky | Mar 11, 2025 | Blog
By PAUL NATINSKY A series of one-week boycotts of products and services owned and operated by American and international plutocrats isn’t going to make a difference politically or practically. The richest man in the world was willing to absorb a 50 percent decrease in...
by Paul Natinsky | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog
Existential crises are a recurring theme for Americans As the country goes through a challenge to its to its practical, moral and philosophical foundations, it might seem that we have never been this close to a complete and irrevocable collapse. But we have, although...
by Paul Natinsky | Sep 27, 2024 | Blog
I feel for Oakland. It feels like a sister city to Detroit in many ways. It seems like a great blue-collar sports town that lost three sports franchises that blazed trails (at times, litrally), broke rules and took the road less traveled. In this case the road led...