With so much news out there, how can anyone make sense of it all? This blog is a Boomer’s conversation with AI, exploring today’s biggest topics

By the end of August, one conclusion was impossible to avoid. Every problem I examined—healthcare, Social Security, climate change, tariffs, misinformation, institutional imbalance—eventually collapsed into…
Teaser:This week tested whether AI systems can handle fast-moving, high-stakes news without drifting into narrative, speculation, or ideological comfort zones. Using identical questions and strict…
When Naming Problems Is No Longer Enough By August, something fundamental had shifted. For months, the work had been about seeing clearly—learning how to ask…
When Endurance Replaces Momentum By July, nothing felt new anymore. Not climate change.Not tariffs.Not court rulings.Not institutional gridlock. The stories kept coming, but the outcomes…
By June, the stories had stopped surprising me. Healthcare kept resurfacing—not as a policy debate, but as a mechanism. PBMs remained firmly in the middle,…