| Mar 6, 2013 | Economy / BusinessI have a question: If this is the greatest country in the world, why do we keep acting so dumb? I suppose the sequestration of the federal budget isn’t as dumb as deliberately going over the fiscal cliff, but it’s plenty dumb. Just as the economy was showing signs of...
| | Economy / BusinessA dozen years ago, Brazil ranked as the world’s most unequal major nation. Brazil’s most affluent 10 percent were grabbing nearly 50 times more income, on average, than Brazil’s poorest tenth, over double the U.S. gap. Amid this intense inequality,...
| | Food / FarmingThe nastiest looking insect I’ve ever seen crawled out of a hole near a dead stump in my garden the other day. I was weeding there, and I’m sure I disturbed it. To be honest, I was scared. This thing looked like it could bite me and it would hurt. I...
| | Rights / DemocracyHere’s some unexpected news. It comes from what purports to be an official document of the National Republican Party. And — wow — the policy positions it contains show that party leaders really are serious about coming to their senses and rejecting the far-right...
| | Economy / BusinessHow do you gauge the impact of depriving 12,000 low-income California preschoolers of the opportunity to participate in the Head Start program because of budgetary gridlock? Or stripping more than half a million people living in poverty of their access to the highly...
