St. Joan of the Tundra taught him the art of inviting ridicule and turning it into victimization.
March/April/May 2015
Posted inMagazine, March/April/May 2015
Tilting at Windmills
Four regulations and a funeral A few years ago, my wife became a funeral director. She has a special emphasis on “back to basics” funerals: simple caskets, avoiding embalming if possible, woodland burial, personal attention from the funeral director. She’d like to set up her own small funeral establishment some day, but she discovered a […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Washington’s Biggest Problem: Not Agreeing on the Problem
Gridlock rules Washington not just because the parties can’t agree on solutions to our nation’s problems, but because they can’t even agree on what the problems are. Senate Republicans didn’t block Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade bill in 2010 because they favored different policies—say, a carbon tax—for controlling global warming. They blocked it because they didn’t believe […]
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Operation Rent Seeking
How the war on terrorism became a business model.
Posted inBooks, Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Death with Indignity
How Medicare and other federal subsidies rope the elderly into painful, futile, and costly end-of-life care.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Welfare with an Ocean View
The federal government spends billions replenishing beaches for the affluent. The bill will soon skyrocket thanks to climate change.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
The Reckless Reign of W.
We are still living with the forty-third president’s legacy.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
The Future of Work
The American Midwest and the Mexican border are the twin faces of economic globalization—and the upheavals they have endured are the new normal.
Posted inGovernment, Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Lost in Obamacare
Buried in Steven Brill’s convoluted tome are important truths about how to reform our health care delivery system.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2015, Politics
A Lobbyist Just for You
And two other solutions to counter corporate influence in Washington.
