It’s been perhaps a generation and a half since America experienced the pain of double-digit inflation. We don’t talk much about inflation these days,
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Why is the anger of Trump supporters so displaced?
It takes a special kind of anger to be a Trump supporter. It’s not just that you might be frustrated with your economic condition
How the federal government may not be serving St. Louis well
One of the challenges that progressives frequently face is that they like to be sticklers for facts, at least wherever possible. And since a
Scarborough’s misconceptions about liberals in the media
Daily Kos called Joe Scarborough the “resident Republican blowhard on MSNBC.” Daily Kos and many other on the left-leaning outlets have taken Scarborough to
Infrastructure: They’re clear-cutting my back yard, and why I’m okay with that
This week, NIMBY [“not in my back yard”] became LIMBY [“literally in my back yard”] when bucket trucks, backhoes, stump grinders, wood chippers and
Amtrak crash shows disconnect in Republican Brain
Every once in a while, we get a clear view of a major disconnect in the Republican Brain.This certainly is true with the responses
Let the feds be tax collectors for all
In the next few years, two of the biggest potential economic developments in the St. Louis metropolitan area may be a new stadium for
Missouri’s proposed sales tax hike: A question of fairness and progressive identity
[by Willy Kessler] So, on the heels of a tax cut for the wealthy that insults every middle and working class person in the
Jackson, Mississippi rising
Six years after the 2008 economic meltdown, the overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. and the E.U are still struggling. Most people know
Solar (Freakin’) Roadways!
Global warming and its effect on climate change is real, and it’s frightening. While our political and corporate classes are joined at the hip and still