Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America About a year ago, I wrote about Carnival and Lent as a metaphor for America’s eternal cultural divide. I said, basically, that it all started with the Puritans and their Lenten self-renouncing rigidity vs the Southerners and their Carnival-esque…
Yes, Amazon has done so many anticompetitive things over the years that it takes 2 posts to list them all! In fact, Amazon has been attempting to…
Because good things in American healthcare would piss neoliberals off so bad. Good Thing #1 That Will Never Happen in American Healthcare: Stop Collecting all That Data…
Time for a very unpopular opinion. There’s too much healthcare in the United States. Too much medical intervention in people’s lives. I’ll start by acknowledging that the…
Small Local Businesses Fight Back Against the Big ICE onslaught You may have heard that restaurants in Chicago and the Minneapolis/St. Paul area have actively refused to…
Periodically, the US Congress manages to pass a big, fat, complex piece of legislation known as the Farm Bill. It hasn’t exactly been able to do that…
