…The first six are participants in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new Direct Contracting Model, which we shall discuss further in Part Two of this post. Source: Authors’ analysis…

…“Evicted,” originally an academic dissertation, a compelling novelistic drive. The insistence on personal agency is even more explicit in Desmond’s new book. “Poverty, by America” is a compact jeremiad on…

…field between the haves and have nots. It passed laws that sought to benefit all. Now the state is a mediocre player on the national scene. As recently as 2020,…

…consolidated elsewhere. Huge Regional Distribution Centers are being built in places like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Indianapolis (as discussed here). Large Network Distribution Centers (formerly bulk mail centers) are being repurposed to…

If you recall, I reported on a West VA. Federal Court Ruling in Favor of Drug Distributors last July. The City of Huntington and the County of Cabell sued three…

…rule of law. Terrorists…purposefully target civilians, kill them. We uphold the laws of war,” Biden said, laws that prohibit deliberate targeting of civilians and require proportionate responses. “It matters. There’s…

…consequently the term “party” in its name had confused the public. Moreover, replacing the “socialist” label with “social democrats” was meant to disassociate the group from the Soviet Union.[3] SDUSA, which…

…by other widespread usages, like “savings” (plural). That term implies some vague, undefined stock of holdings; the label “savings” doesn’t appear in any national accounts. But it can only mean “assets” (or…

…can in turn help explain pervasive socioeconomic coordination failures. 4 There’s also moral baggage at play here in these labels. Think of schuld, the German word for debt, which also means guilt….

…oust her was “illegitimate.” An unsigned statement issued by the state GOP called it a “political lynching.” Her critics filed a lawsuit in state court to enforce the removal vote,…