…citizens. Consider primary and secondary education: 90 percent of U.S. children attend free public schools, and most of the rest go to religious schools. Why is healthcare that different? If people want…

…to Congress to use the government to disenfranchise voters they didn’t like/didn’t agree with, fight culture wars, tear down democracy, and, wittingly or not, serve wealthy interests.  Sent people who…

…consisting entirely of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and they’re doing so in starkly fanatical religious terms. This is alarming! But not so much, it seems, to Lloyd Austin,…

…He wasn’t raised in toxic masculinity: “As a boy growing up in Minnesota, Hegseth appeared to be a perfect version of the American male. He was religious, athletic, well-spoken, and…

…away his version of corruption as a positive. After all, if Gordon Gecko could get away with saying “Greed is good,” contrary to nearly all religious morals and ethics, then…

Michael Swanwick explains how a monopoly can destroy itself: Nowadays, times are much easier but a lot scammier. Last week I had to buy a new palmbook/laptop. Which, I discovered…

UPDATE: datacharmer at Bluematter thinks visually. Bruce, yesterday: Unless you have had the experience of using an advanced smartphone it is hard to explain how transforming it is to have…

The rest is details: The reason I choose to pay through the nose for my computers is very simple: unlike just about every other manufacturer in the business, Apple appreciate…

…the accumulation of immense wealth by a few at the top of the income distribution.  Outsize military expenditures driven by Bush’s preemptive wars undertaken at the same time that the…

…the totally unregulated bidding wars for investment we see here in the United States. As I have shown, EU Member States have been able to obtain investments with far lower…