…explain a persistent and troubling reality: the gap between what the public appears to want and what the political system consistently produces. If solutions are known, and public support exists,…

…public provision, in which the government runs the hospitals and clinics, with doctors and nurses as public employees? Or will it be a system of private provision, in which private…

There’s a lot of attention being paid these days to EVs and solar power, but there are plenty of other ways to decarbonize human activity. Public transportation is one. I’m…

…We Fund Universal Public Goods? Blame the Tax-Dodging Billionaire Nepo Babies, Common Dreams, Julia Conley The children of the richest families in the U.S. are well-known for spending their vast…

…near us. Apparently, there was an event where E. coli bacteria got into the potable water system. Supposedly, this occurred around the 25th of August. The public was not notified…

…them.) 2.Obama’s proposed chained-CPI cut would typically reduce benefits for 3 percent, and by as much as 6 percent for some recipients. 3.The White House’s decision to label this cut…

…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…

…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…

…the right to set the tone of the dialogue by letting them label the current situation. We aren’t facing a “fiscal cliff”, he notes, but rather an “austerity bomb”. [The…

…not only a great read but also a revealing informational source on the changes in the American polity, she does note the label he attaches to the right-wing resurgence (“breadwinner…