There is a country that ranks 31st globally in life expectancy even though its healthcare costs per capita are by far the highest. This country has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the free world. It loses over a thousand people every week to misuse of ...read more
In the wake of Charlottesville and Donald Trump's spectacular failure to denounce white supremacy and Neo-Nazism, conscientious Americans are justifiably concerned about fascism going mainstream in their country. I stumbled upon a painfully astute quote from Norman Mailer that ...read more
Tragedy struck Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, and once again, hatred is at the center of the conversation in America. White supremacists marched in the middle of the night showing their anger for the impending removal of the Robert E. Lee confederate statue. The ...read more
To all you Alt-Right males out there, I hear you. I understand -- to a degree -- where you are coming from. You believe in freedom of speech, you are sick of PC culture that you feel suppresses your right to be an asshole. I can be an asshole too, and I understand that activist ...read more
These days my life is a lot like the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I mill about and wonder who among the crowd is an alien. Replace “alien” with “Trump supporter” and you’ve nailed my reality. They live among us. They cut in front of us in supermarket checkout lines. ...read more
A Reuters piece Thursday afternoon carried the headline, “In blow to Trump, U.S. court denies Republican poll monitor request.” The article reported on a federal judge’s decision to uphold a Pennsylvania state law requiring party-registered election monitors to only serve in the ...read more
During an interview on Bloomberg TV, New York Times columnist and esteemed economist Paul Krugman dismissed the notion that “economic anxiety" was a good predictor of who might be a Trump supporter. "Racial antagonism is a good indicator of who’s a Trump supporter,” said ...read more
