Vol. XXX · No. 305
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Society
We spend an enormous amount of time talking about the haves and the have-nots, and the conversation usually assumes that the people who have more somehow took it from the people who have less. Sometimes that's true. But civilization gets built and kept running by the people who contribute to it, and there's another group that seems determined to take everything it provides and...
Political
I suspect most Americans have never seriously considered this question: how the hell did the United States become one of the most powerful economies on Earth before the federal government started taking a permanent cut of everybody's paycheck? We spread across a continent and built railroads, factories and steel mills, and by 1900 we were an industrial powerhouse. For most of that stretch, there...
Political
France is having a student protest, and we all know how those go. Students march, wave signs, demand better schools, gripe about tuition, and every...
Political
Apparently Republicans are trying to take away women's right to vote again. At least that's what's being shoveled around about the SAVE America Act: married...
Political
I think "Lake America" is silly, and I'd rather get that out of the way up front. Watching parts of the left absolutely lose their...
Political
You've probably seen the bumper sticker: NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND. It usually comes with a smug little sense that somebody just delivered...
Health
I had my gallbladder removed. The damn thing was full of rocks, and after dealing with the pain and digestive problems, getting rid of it...
Political
One of the strangest things about living in America is that we've become so accustomed to extraordinary prosperity that we've mistaken it for normal. It...
Conspiracy Theory
At first glance, the Dead Internet Theory sounds like the sort of thing you'd hear at 3:00 in the morning from a guy in a...
Money
Apparently, in Louisiana, utility companies have looked at the concept of energy efficiency and discovered a horrifying problem: if people use less electricity, the utility...
Political
I voted for Trump, and I'm not the biggest fan of Trump. Apparently that puts me in some bizarre political no-man's-land, because the internet requires...
Political
The pizza meme assumes America is one giant democracy where 340 million people pile their votes into a single national bucket. That's not the country...