What’s So Great About A “Cashless Economy?”
Electronic payments are convenient but sometimes there’s nothing better than money in your pocket.
Don’t Support the Troops?
Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”
Finland’s Cardboard Baby Boxes
Finland gives all parents of newborns a cardboard box for their babies to sleep in. No, they’re not homeless.
George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, And The Rules Of Evidence
It’s time to take a look at the pre-trial issues in what is likely to be the trial of the Summer of 2013.
Poor Pay High Taxes, If We Redefine ‘Taxes’
The American tax code contains perverse incentives and barriers to getting out of poverty.
Bootless Homeless Guy Bootless Again
A photograph of a New York cop putting boots on a homeless man went viral. The man remains bootless, however.
Veterans Aren’t Victims
My latest for The Atlantic, “Stop Feeling Sorry for American Veterans, has posted.
Why Doesn’t The Middle Class Revolt?
Why isn’t the American middle class and working class angrier at the 1 percent?
Shooting Deaths at Occupy Oakland and Occupy Burlington
Details are still sketchy but two men are dead in separate shootings at Occupy Oakland (California) and Occupy Burlington (Vermont).
Occupy Wall Street On The Verge Of Fizzling Out?
As the season changes, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems destined to peter out.
ACORN Behind Occupy Movement, Right Wing Media Charges
Unnamed “sources” claim that ACORN is somehow behind Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.