In the past few years, scientists have issued ever more gloomy warnings about global warming.
As the real kept falling, the government kept playing double-or-quits, issuing ever more dollar-linked bonds but facing mounting losses on them.
Following a series of high-profile controversies over corruption that has pushed the issue ever more under the spotlight, the group has warned there is a "governance deficit" in almost every area of national activity.
But Trump throughout the presidential race has issued ever more controversial statements that have turned many moderate Republicans against him.
While at the moment, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the US right wing are issuing ever more dire warnings about the purported dangers of the seemingly imminent Iran nuclear deal, they undoubtedly recognize that they have probably lost that fight, so BDS will clearly be the next big push.
As environmental and social issues grow ever more urgent in 2015, we can expect the gray areas – and the search for solutions – to continue to loom large.
Amid the apocalyptic scare-stories, animated name-calling and heavy-handed orchestration surrounding last week's GM debate, the real issues seem ever more deeply buried.
The brave new world of the 1960s did nothing to curb the tittle-tattle; indeed, as the cold war intensified, the issue assumed ever more menacing implications.
The impediment to all of this sensible thinking around transit manufacturing is, of course, financing: With a $10 billion budget gap, the authority, in awful shape, is attempting to sustain itself with cuts to its capital plan and the issuing of ever more debt.
As they wait here, the immigration issue grows ever more volatile.
