The US didn’t tank the USSR
The price of oil did. This from a conservative think tank.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day June 20, 2007
Amistad captain a hardcore slaver
Recent research, using previously unknown documents from Cuba show that Ramon Ferrer, captain of the of the slaver ship Amistad who was killed by the slaves in the famous uprising, was no minor wheel in the slave trade. Instead, he…
The Earth today stands in imminent peril
…and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific…
Our unfriendly electoral system
The US electoral system is unfriendly, and deliberately so, to third party attempts to get ballot status for presidential candidates. Such candidates face a bewildering thicket of regulations and rules that vary widely from state to state. Why is it…
No-affluence, no poverty
The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka has since 1958 been advocating a “no poverty, no affluence society.” This has been the foundation of its economic philosophy. It turns out there’s one small problem: no one quite knows what it…