We live in bubbles. Not merely online spaces with like-minded partisans — our physical lives are within geographic bubbles. That’s not news to most people.…
Posts tagged as “United States”
The marginal and effective U.S. income tax rates mentioned in my 2011 post The 90 Percent Tax Myth have been supported by research conducted by Thomas Piketty…
Minimum wage debates tend to overstate the estimated and real effects of any changes to the minimum wage in the United States. Most studies show…
Supporters of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seem to be stuck in reality distortion bubbles. This is slightly more pronounced on the Trump side, where…
Though I don’t assume Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic Party nominee for president, I do assume the next president will respond to populist…
I’m sick and tired of being told I’m not a liberal (in the common usage of the United States, not elsewhere) because I’m somehow from…
The federal (centralized, primary national leadership) system in most countries has a lot of power — such as a national sales tax, national education system,…
Regardless, calling something “direct democracy” does make it sound, to the public, as if they are in control. On this matter, I must admit Chomsky…
A curious survey was conducted in Europe by The Economist, using the size of Europe as a starting point for developing the questions. Remember that…