The Well Run Dry

I'm a bit tied up with an ongoing research project, so here's another repost from way back.  I think it's particularly relevant ...

This past week, the New York Times ran a front page piece titled, “Bleak Portrait of Poverty is Off the Mark, Experts Say.” It was ba...

As I promised in my post, “ Adjusting My Own Oxygen Mask ,” I want to write a bit about the steps I am taking to make my life and my neigh...

Medical care in the United States is insanely expensive. According to several sources, medical bankruptcies account for 60 percent of al...

It should be fairly obvious by now that the last few decades have seen the tearing apart of government-backed social safety nets in much o...

Much of this blog has focused on the ongoing economic collapse in the United States, and the warped economic arrangements that prevent ord...

In my last post, Making The World Sick, One Country At A Time , I stated some key facts to illustrate how the American health care system ...