My Children Will Be Better Off Than Me – a series on American values
A cherished part of our national culture has long been the belief that parents can improve their children’s future through better education, hard work, and […]
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The Health Insurance Disaster – beyond the end of ACA tax credits
There has been much talk about the 4.8 million people (1.4 million in Florida and 750,000 in New York state) who will lose their Obamacare […]
Pervasive Anonymity Is a Significant Threat
recent ICE masking is the tip of the iceberg of this destructive practice The appearance of various masked Federal agents seizing people on the street […]
A Poem for This Day Before the Self-Inflicted Famine
from an acquaintance in my old hometown I follow David Olivencia’s occasional comments about life on his blog Letters from a Postman. This one caught […]
The K-shaped world we live in – the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good….
My research into the enormous explosion of wealth and income inequality in the US over the past fifty years be summarized as the $79 trillion […]
Graham Platner, a Democrat who has got the message – fighting the billionaires
I’ve been very frustrated that, with very few exceptions, the Democratic Party continues to fail to fight the Billionaire Class. How is it that they […]
Bringing Down a Dictator
Lessons from Serbia that are very applicable today in the US With our political system increasingly a dictatorship by Trump and his billionaire supporters, we […]
How the Rich & Corporations Control Government – a fifty year story……
In my research over the past ten years into why the US looks the way it does, early on I noticed that, despite the rhetoric […]
Why taxing the rich & corporations is not the only step we need to take – reversing the top-down class warfare
Many on the left are calling for increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to fund the government while reducing the burden on most Americans. […]
Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review
I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]