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By Taylor Armerding
CNHI News Service

In the endless argument over whether the rich pay their “fair share” of taxes, Republicans have the better argument: U.S. tax laws are already steeply progressive – the top 1 percent pay 36 percent of federal income taxes while the bottom 50 percent pay next to nothing. And while not all wealthy people create jobs, it does take those with wealth to create them.

By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters
CNHI News Service

Nothing about Earth's history is static or unchanging. That’s particularly true of climate, and thereon hangs more than one interesting tale including recent news of a scientific advance in understanding how past climate has changed.

It wasn’t too long ago by my standards – about the 1830s – that naturalists

By Nick Massey
CNHI News Service

Last week we reviewed outcomes for 2011 and how my predictions worked out. This week we’ll discuss 2012.

Now is when demographic trends I have talked about for so long really start to bite. The median age of the 78 million U.S. baby boomers is 56 and the oldest are now in their mid-60s.

By Don McNay
CNHI News Service

I set fire to the rain.
-Adele

An aspiring life coach has been working to help me improve in several areas. She found some of my old notes (I think they came from listening to the strategic coach Dan Sullivan) about the four habits shared by most entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs usually have four characteristics:

By Mitchel Olszak
CNHI News Service

As a journalist and editor, I receive a lot of requests for help.

They come from people suffering from injustice — real or perceived. They come from people who are struggling to grasp the finer points of modern bureaucracy. They come from people who believe I posses the power to alter public opinion in a direction they deem to be desirable.