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It’s Time for American Business to Stop Subsidizing the World’s Largest Dictatorship

Rebuilding American manufacturing not only returns jobs to our country, but also keeps profits here in America. Instead of strengthening…

3 years ago

Refrigerator Pickled Carrots

       Are there carrots?” asked my friend. The question was not existential. He was planning to feed a lot of…

3 years ago

Averting Climate Crisis

One month before Earth Day — on March 20 — the United Nations released its most dire climate report ever.…

3 years ago

Media Gets Labor Wrong Again

The Bloomberg News headline announced, “LA, Long Beach Port Terminal Closures Stretch to Second Day” about a lack of workers…

3 years ago

No Papers?  Lose Your Home!

USDA and Housing Authorities could follow the process established in employment law, where reverification is barred once the original documents…

3 years ago

What Do Pornography, Ginny Thomas, & Thomas Jefferson Have In Common?

Besides talking about Impeaching Clarence Thomas - the Biden administration and Democrats in the Senate might be better served investigating…

3 years ago

Life After Mother: Cost of Cremation

My father didn’t want a funeral or memorial, so I considered three options: to keep his ashes in a private…

3 years ago

Dead School Children are a Sign of America’s Trump-Fueled Fascism Problem

There is a straight line from criminalizing queer people to banning books to forbidding women’s rights to seizing control of…

3 years ago

The Naked Truth

Yes, this idealized depiction of “David”,  the same one referenced in the Bible, is a study in human form that’s…

3 years ago

Are Superstores and Malls “the New Downtown”?

In a way, a mall or superstore is like a small town’s downtown. Instead of a library, there’s the bookstore…

3 years ago