An image of tree stumps, as far as the eye (or camera) can see. A massive dam project, destroying a village. Absurd McMansions in gated…
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Media, including news coverage of politics and economics.
If Democrats pass legislation forgiving loans, the move might be popular with their educated progressive base, yet unpopular with many working-class voters. Student debt is…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death at the age of 87 reminds us that it wasn’t all that long ago that we could disagree with people without…
Entrepreneurs create wealth, something supported by data globally (particularly in emerging markets). Having an idea, either an innovation to an existing product or the creation…
What we are witnessing in political debates about wealth is also an intergenerational dispute. Older Americans, who are living longer and working longer than ever…
Democracy doesn’t appeal to me, I’ve written before on this blog and elsewhere. The problem is that most of us, myself included, are not experts…
Elizabeth Warren promotes the theory that we’d all be better off if the “FAANG” companies (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) were broken up in…
The president is proving, oddly enough, how little national politics matter to my daily life. My township, county, and state governments touch my life directly.…
We vote against people and groups, rarely for a political leader in whom we believe. Research and polling suggest negative partisanship now guides most voting…
A constant annoyance on social media is the constant, and generally unprovoked, attacks on “libertarians” who apparently belong to a cabal ready to destroy the…