https://republicofwrath.com/ American politics is loud, angry and bristling, so what else is new? Well, the make-up of the two major parties, cut more neatly along ideological lines than any point in our past, seem unable to be the vehicle for the design and acceptance of consensus policies. Perhaps, that’s because it’s not so much policy …
https://davidakaplan.com/books/the-most-dangerous-branch-tr/the-most-dangerous-branch-hc Given the partisan battles over recent Supreme Court nominations, and the Democrats frustration over Mitch McConnell’s fixation for affecting American politics through the federal courts for a generation to come, President Biden was asked during the campaign if he would expand the size of the Court. It’s been done a number of times before …
https://www.kevinvallier.com/ In the aftermath of the presidential election of 2020, we seem to be more polarized than ever before–fully retreated into political camps and tossing verbal grenades at the opposition. Our guest, Kevin Vallier, a political philosopher from Bowling Green University argues in his new book, ‘Trust in a Polzarized Age’, that as polarization is …
https://therealandrewmaynard.com/future-rising/ Man has never before had as much potential to affect the future as we do today. We can cure diseases in ways never imagined, develop technology to solve problems using algorithms that would have taken countless man hours and apply modern practices to the way we live to insure plenty for all. On the …
http://www.civilrighttocounsel.org/about/staff Matthew Desmond’s acclaimed book, ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’ drew attention to the eviction crisis in America. Estimates suggest upwards of 900,000 renters were being evicted every year in America. And that was before the pandemic forced a policy change putting a moratorium on evictions. Without it, those numbers would …
https://shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommerce/books/for-which-we-stand-9781338643084.html The young people who survived the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 became daily visitors in our home through their articulate expression of grief and the millions they attracted to their cause, which involved the rallying cry of ‘stop killing kids’. As a nation, we sensed this time …
https://www.josephmichelli.com/bestsellers/ The answer to the question may be that if you do not come out stronger on the other side of the pandemic, it may be because you’ve succumbed to the many hazards within. While Joseph Michelli, who has put on microscope on companies like Starbucks and Airbnb, was undertaking the sweet assignment of breaking …
https://www.stevendudley.com/ We often hear about the notorious street gang MS-13. Some politicians make it sound as if they are a danger in all corners of the country. In many ways, they are concentrated in and around Los Angeles and local elements do, from time to time, have impact elsewhere in the country. In fact, their …
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Promised-Land/David-Stebenne/9781982102708 Societies have always had rich and the poor, but America gave definition and prominence to the three fifths of our countrymen who land somewhere in the middle. The reforms that followed the Great Depression put the federal government squarely on the side of those looking to attain a piece of the American Dream. Policies …
https://www.amazon.com/Down-Along-That-Devils-Bones/dp/1616209100 The raging battle over Confederate monuments speaks to a past and a heritage that just won’t die. The remnants of enslavement and degradation of African-Americans in America casts a long shadow and reminds us of what some call our ongoing cold Civil War. Connor Towne O’Neill in his must read book, ‘Down Along with …