Author: Miller Hudson
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Thinking through what may be on tap in 2026 | HUDSON
When the three-million-year-old bones of Lucy were unearthed in an Ethiopian valley in 1974, paleoanthropologists anointed her as the Eve to all of us. Though her skull was not big enough to accommodate our larger, homo sapiens’ brain, she was a genetic hominid. Although a few bone fragments of a greater age have been discovered…
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Trump’s anti-DEI crusade enables twisting of the law | HUDSON
As soon-to-be denizens of America’s imminent Golden Age, which mysteriously seems to be perpetually hiding just around our next economic corner, I’m fearful this promised prosperity will arrive with strict rules governing how we are permitted to spend any newfound riches. For that matter, the expanding MAGA war against all things even remotely linkable to…
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An early candidate for 2026’s word of the year: ‘affordability’ | HUDSON
The Oxford Press linked to the famous British University and publisher of the world’s best known English Dictionary has selected its favorite new word for 2025: “rage bait.” It means exactly what you might guess, even if, like me, you haven’t actually encountered it. Think of any five minutes spent listening to Tucker Carlson or…
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Trump admin’s maiming of renewables agencies an energy affront | HUDSON
NREL has a rhythmic resonance that won’t be matched by NLR, Colorado’s newly christened National Laboratory of the Rockies. Nearly lost to memory is how the National Renewable Energy Laboratory authorized by President George H. W. Bush in 1991 was preceded by the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), which opened in 1977 on the mesa…
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Trump’s menacing military moves wearing thin with voters | HUDSON
When I reported to my initial assignment following Naval Officer Candidate School, my commanding officer asked me somewhat jovially, “You know why the Navy sends me Ensigns don’t you Mr. Hudson?” Puzzled, I replied, “No, Sir.” Still grinning, he explained, “If anyone screws up here, I’ll need someone we can court-martial.” U.S. Navy discipline has…
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Adult supervision still needed for Colorado GOP as consequential 2026 nears | HUDSON
Prior to the Reformation, the Catholic Church could safely franchise its Inquisition across Europe in pursuit of heretics with little worry there was anyplace non-believers could flee. Following several centuries of religious wars between Catholics and Protestants, it became evident attracting converts, rather than slaughtering theological rivals, was the better path for all concerned. It…
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The advantage of Medicare Advantage | HUDSON
During the initial 50 years of my working life, I was a net contributor to American health care. I reached 70 having spent only a single day in a hospital following an appendectomy at 17. Today that would have been a day surgery. Virtually all my adult life, I paid for medical insurance, with just…
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Perhaps a little democratic socialism can be common sense | HUDSON
“Comrades!” — New York’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who obviously enjoys trolling his critics, could have launched his victory speech with that shout out. He was far subtler than that, quoting Eugene Debs instead, the progressive-era socialist who ran for president several times and was thrown into federal prison by Woodrow Wilson for opposing the American…
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Has the danger of AI already arrived? | HUDSON
I can’t escape a suspicion the terminology adopted to characterize large-language-model (LLM) software as “artificial intelligence” is premised on a misleading presumption human brains and “deep learning” algorithms have something in common. This seems highly unlikely. We are wholly unable to discern how human thought functions in a gelatinous nerve bundle the size of a…
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Will Weiser-Bennet battle test Colorado Dems’ take on open primaries? | HUDSON
Writing in the New York Times several months ago, columnist David Wallace-Wells ruminated on whether our two major political parties are likely to survive much longer. Although there are a number of academics in political science who have proffered the same query recently, perhaps Pete Buttigieg’s observation, “I think that both parties should examine their…