Hurricane Matthew Will Aid The Spread Of Zika
Charles Pierce makes an interesting point about one of the impacts of the devastating Hurricane Mathew in Florida that probably very...
Yearly Archive: 2016
Trump Manages To Be Sexist Even When Denying He's Sexist
Donald Trump manages to insult women even when he is trying to not to. Yesterday, in an interview in Nevada where...
Theranos Fraud Perhaps Reaching The End Of The Line
Yesterday, Theranos, the over-hyped company that promised a blood-testing device that would just need a few drops of blood, announced the...
Down-Ballot Republicans Getting Very Nervous
Donald Trump’s disastrous debate performance, which was followed his continual self-inflicted wounds relating to his feud with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado as...
One Graph That Shows Rising Inequality Over Last 35 Years
In my previous post, I talked about the new study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) that documents that African Americans continue...
Study Confirms Institutional Racism
The Economic Policy Institute has a new paper out which looks at median hourly wages since 1979. The study’s focus is...
NPR's Corey Flintoff Talks About Putin's Russia
Corey Flintoff, the NPR reporter, gave a talk at the Fairfield Theatre Company last night about his four-year stint as a...
The Myth Of The Fiduciary Duty To Maximize Shareholder Value
Donald Trump admitted at a rally the other day in Colorado that he had been a substantial beneficiary of tax laws...
Incarceration Explosion Has Led To Fewer Men In Work Force
There are currently about 7 million men between the ages of 25 and 54 who are currently not in the labor...
Clinton Wants To End Forced Arbitration Clauses
Hillary Clinton has been pushing her liberal credentials in the last few days. Yesterday, she talked about putting some spine in antitrust enforcement,...