When I was younger, my life was packed with clopening shifts. In my first job at Sears in the Maine Mall, I’d work on the receiving docks until 9 at night, drive the half hour home, eat, get a few hours’ sleep, and then wake up at 5 am so I could eat, shower, and get back to work for a stocking shift by 6 am. A few years later,
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Fracturing democracies Washington Post – EJ Dionne. Mr. Dionne has the unique ability to sift through the day to day grime of politics and find distinct patterns in our political eras. In his most recent article, Dionne takes a look at a range of Western nations and how their people are all dissatisfied and angered with the
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The free trade crowd likes to roll their eyes at critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement as if we’re a bunch of idiots who just can’t (or won’t) understand the way markets work. But here’s the thing about “free trade” as defined by agreements like the TPP: it doesn’t create a free market. Sure, goods are free to cross borders
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It’s Not the 1 Percent Controlling Politics. It’s the 0.01 Percent. Mother Jones – Dave Gilson Let this sink in: About 125 Americans control more than 40 percent of election contributions. Within this article there are a couple informative graphs which show how this trend has accelerated after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. The
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Look, I’ve worked in the media during a presidential campaign. I know what it’s like. You get swept up in the craziness of it all, and sometimes your good sense goes out the window. You forget that these politicians are trying to be leader of the free world and you start to think of it
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Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage New York Times – Noam Scheiber Even Senator Schumer (hardly a bastion of progressivism) is behind the increase of the minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 to $12 by 2020. “The politics, substance and morality coincide to make it a winner issue for us in 2016,”
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