by Peter Venetoklis | May 3, 2018 | Opinion, Politics
Hot on the heels of actress Cynthia Nixon’s from-the-left primary challenge of incumbent Andrew Cuomo in the upcoming New York governor’s race comes a bold plan from Senator Bernie Sanders to guarantee every American a job. Bernie’s plan amounts to...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 24, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Opinion, Politics
The State, in using its carceral system to support its continued carceral endeavors in order to serve the interests of the incarcerators, has created a terrible feedback loop. Since the Clinton administration, America’s carceral system has been driven by...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 5, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Opinion
The annals of history tell us that, across millennia, income redistribution flows upward, from the poor to the rich (like the economics of most of Africa today). The poor, today, would be better off opposing income redistribution, here and now in America, in how their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 29, 2018 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
Earlier this month, Trump slipped a dagger between the ribs of the stock market, a market that had been riding high since his election, by confirming fears of a trade war with China. The market reacted as expected. A week ago, he signed the “omnibus”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 4, 2018 | Economics, Opinion, Politics
A week or so after Trump’s election, I wrote a list of hopes and fears for his presidency. Of the dozen hopes I listed, Trump actually managed to fulfill six and initiate two more in his first year. On the fears side, he didn’t “succeed” in...
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