A while back there was a lot of discussion around a pair of essays penned by venture capitalist Paul Graham. The first one is well researched, thoughtful, and raises a compelling hypothesis of what he believes are the unique forces…
I most certainly didn’t start at this position. Like most Americans the idea of owning a home was tantamount to owning a chunk of Americana. But the recent discussions of wages got me thinking about what we value in this…
An interesting thing took place recently. Workers from across the country united against what they felt were unfair work practices and began to protest. This in and of itself is remarkable since the labor movement has been all but spayed…
There is a lot of talk going around about raising the minimum wage. Conservatives have coalesced around the idea that raising the minimum wage right now is a terrible idea because it will hurt small business. According to conservatives the…
Super fast gigabit Internet access: It is something all consumers want or it is something consumers really have little interest in. I’ve decided to start this piece here because as I write this both of those statements appear to be…
Every once and a while I like to take time out to analyze standard Republican talking points. I like to see if the things that Republicans breathlessly state as dogma do in fact make any sense. Today I want to…
One of the constant tropes of the conservative populi is some variation of the bread and circus argument. The idea that liberals and Democrats, to lure people to vote for them, will simply offer more freebies to their base so…
In a new op-ed on the Huffington Post, Michelle Rhee goes into a long discussion of the problems with schools in poverty areas: “It’s not easy to complete your homework if your electricity has been cut off, you don’t have…
Whenever I end up in a conversation with a conservative about taxes I often feel like we’re talking past one another. This is both our faults because when we’re talking taxes we’re often looking at different sides of the ledger.…
Lost in much of the talk about our failing economy is the real disparity of income that has existed along racial lines. This is mostly because this information is nothing new. For as long as we have been keeping data…