| Jun 26, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAs many of you already have intuited, I don’t know everything. Nobody does, I suppose. More importantly, I don’t know everything about anything. I’m what used to be called “a generalist,” someone whose knowledge in any direction is a mile...
| | Economy / BusinessOnly 10 percent of Americans now have confidence in Congress, Gallup informs us. No other major American institution has ever had an approval rating this low. But public confidence in Congress would probably sink even lower if average Americans knew more about what...
| | Food / FarmingWhat’s simply delicious, even if it’s genetically engineered? Irony. For years, advocates of growing crops with genes from other species spliced into their DNA have claimed that this newfangled farming increases crop yields, reduces pesticide use, and...
| | Economy / BusinessFolks, there’s a serious housing shortage in America these days. The stress it’s creating for needy families is approaching heart-attack levels. Did you know, for example, that the inventory of million-dollar homes in Carmel, California, dwindled to only...
| | Rights / DemocracyVoting rights are under attack again — this time it’s the Supreme Court’s turn. The majority’s ruling in the Shelby County vs. Holder case gutted key Voting Rights Act provisions at a time when minority access to the polls faces new obstacles. As...
