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Where We Dwell Is Changing Fast
Owning your own home makes a lot of sense. Or at least it did, back when workers enjoyed steady jobs and when mortgages were owned by the bank downtown. There is security in knowing what your monthly payment will be for the next 30 years and that no rapacious landlord can jack up your rent.
The Lineup: Week of April 2-8, 2012
Chuck Collins explains what’s behind the “99 percent spring.”
The 99 Percent Spring
At the root of this discontent are the extreme inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity that have emerged over the last four decades.
Our Failed Cuba Policy Fixation
It’s election season. When they’re not kissing babies or holding staged conversations with average voters at coffee shops, presidential hopefuls will dust off tired arguments about the national security threat posed by Cuba, an island with a population the size of Ohio.
Catching up to the Local Food Revolution
This year, spring arrived early as a record-breaking heat wave swept across the nation. It feels like summer in Minnesota, Virginia, and many other parts of the country. Farmers are either already planting their crops or just about to start. Consumers who shop at farmers markets throughout the Midwest will soon be sampling fresh-picked local asparagus a few weeks ahead of schedule.
Congress: Listen to Lt. Col. Daniel Davis
When Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis returned from his second tour in Afghanistan, he knew that what he’d witnessed first-hand didn’t match the rosy progress reports that top military officials were giving Congress.
Riding on the Wrong Track
I can feel some sympathy with those people who keep telling pollsters that they think the country isn’t on the right track. What I don’t understand is why so many of them keep trying to make things worse.
Congress Opts to Keep Poisoning Children
Yes, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and frivolous federal spending, because…well, because it’s unnecessary and frivolous.
Off Our Backs
Energy: Too Important to Leave to Corporations
In some nations, electricity is actually generated and distributed by the government itself. In some countries, oil and gas production benefits everyone, not CEOs.
