I love Moyers. Let’s put so much hope and trust into our teachers, pay them as if they were the trash we are barely willing to collect. Let’s make sure they have no capacity to discipline their pupils. Then, as …
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Replacing the Corrupt Postmaster General
In addition to what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes here, as I understand it, the real scandal is that DeJoy has a direct incentive to degrade the level of quality provided by the U.S. Post Office: his eight-figure investment …
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Pope Francis on Economic Theory
What’s remarkable about these words from Pope Francis isn’t that they accurately express an important truth; anyone with any sense and integrity recognized the fallacy of trickle-down economics decades ago. What’s worth noting is they came from the leader of …
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Trump Definitely Has His Supporters, But Who Are They?
To follow up on earlier posts in which I suggested that there are enormous segments of the U.S. electorate that find Trump an abomination, there clearly are those with a natural affinity for the former president. At left is a …
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Voting for Gun Safety
If you live in Connecticut, you know how much U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has contributed to keeping us safe from gun violence. It’s true that there are some pretty scummy people in congress, but it’s also true that we have …
Demographics of Trump Supporters
In an earlier post I mention the disdain that U.S. military veterans have for Trump. As suggested here, there are other groups that have also figured out that the former president represents them very poorly–in this case, organized labor. Unions …
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Smokey the Bear and Mitigating Climate Change
As one might expect, a great deal has changed about the way we warn about the danger of wildfires. First is the word “wildfires” itself, which, up until the last couple of decades, were called “forest fires.” Second is the …
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U.S. Military Veterans Want Trump Gone
Of all the segments within the U.S. electorate who are working hard to have Donald Trump removed from American political life, it’s impossible that our military veterans are the most steadfast. It’s likely that there is a combination of related …
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Approaches to Death
As we get into the later years of our lives, after we’ve lost a parent (or both) and more than a few school chums, we start to consider, perhaps for the first time, our own mortality. Dylan Thomas is best …
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RFK, Jr.
From Robert Kennedy Jr.: The latest polls show me ahead of Biden and Trump among voters under age 45. But I need your help getting on the ballot in all 50 states. Let’s break the two-party system and bring real …
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