Opinion
Why are so many working class whites killing themselves?
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two Princeton economists — Angus Deaton (who just won the Nobel Prize) and Anne Case — revealed that death rates among middle-aged, white, non-Hispanic Americans have increased ...
Does Obama even know what’s in his TPP deal?
Last spring, President Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the gleaming Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP) he’s trying to sell to Congress and the public...
What one Republican would do about climate change
Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...
Wild horse slaughter scandal is wakeup call
Is this the smoking gun that will finally result in better treatment of our nation’s iconic wild horses and burros...
Coca-Cola’s corrosive corporate ethos
If your car’s battery terminals are corroded, just open a can of Coca- Cola. Coke will dissolve corrosion, making your battery connections spiffy clean in a jiffy...
Future, our future: think about it
The other day, while listening to the radio, I heard an ad from the gas industry that said gas provides energy whenever you need it, even when the sun is not shining — inaccurately implying that the energy from solar panels cannot be used at night. The ad ended with ...
Democrats and race
In a major American city, the mayor closes 50 public schools in impoverished minority neighborhoods and tries to destroy the teachers’ union. Parents conduct a month-long hunger strike to keep their last neighborhood school open. The mayor closes many public health ...
How Budweiser locks out free enterprise competitors
The word “free” in “free enterprise” is not an adjective, it’s a verb — as in, let’s “free up” the enterprise of small businesspeople who’re locked out of the marketplace by monopoly power...
COPOUT 21
The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...
