Do Iranians Really Want to Overthrow the Islamic Republic?
Polling data, religiosity surveys, and demographics raise questions about the Western narrative that Iranians seek regime change
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How Often Is ICE Acting as a Goon Squad for Landlords?
ICE helps clear apartment complexes and evict tenants while incarceration buildout throws a lifeline to commercial real estate.
Read more...Coffee Break: A Few Notes on the Incoming Surgeon General
Only one part this Friday. The president announced Casey Means, MD, would be his nominee for Surgeon General of the United States hearings in the middle of 2025. The US Senate began considering her nomination this week. The back and forth has been interesting. Where to begin? First we can start with the previous nine […]
Read more...From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that falling trust in government and financial institutions puts the U.S. economy in peril
Read more...Trump Policies and “Donald Dash” Expats Produce Net Emigration for US, Prospective Population Shrinkage
The US showed net emigration in 2025, with an increase in expats bumping up over a rising trend line.
Read more...Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
Read more...The Roots of Nazi Ideology: Arthur Graf J. Gobineau and His Racial-Racist Political Theory
How resentment of the republican ideal of equality stoked the racist theories of Arthur Graf J. Gobineau.
Read more...The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities.
Read more...In Praise of the Lunch Ladies Who Can Save Us from the Great American Food System
The Great American Food System™ is productive when measured by output, but it is not particularly good at producing wholesome and healthy food for the American people. The nature of healthy food has been argued for the past sixty years, with various food plates, pyramids, and other arrays used to illustrate recommendations of the day. […]
Read more...India Exchanges BRICS Ties for Lead Role in the American AI Cage
New Delhi sells out Russia and its own working class as part of India-Middle East-Europe [digital] Corridor that aims to fortify a new American-Israeli hegemony..
Read more...Do You Trust Epstein Elite With Nuclear Weapons?
No arms limitation treaties, few diplomatic channels, AI integration into nuclear command systems, and an elite with Epstein social values. What could go wrong?
Read more...The Myth of the West: Democracy and the State
Per Thomas Neuburger ‘Democratic’ life began millions of years ago. It died with the birth of the city-state.
Read more...One Affordability Battle After Another: What To Do About the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
Read more...Why Does Economics Refuse to Acknowledge John Ruskin’s Illith, as in Harmful Activity?
Why the economics discipline has ignored John Ruskin’s seminal concept of illith, as in destructive activity.
Read more...Ralph Linton (1936), Identity Politics, and the Concept of Ascribed Status
Ralph Linton, arguably the father of what we now call identity politics, had some impressive insights as well as blind spots.
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