This week at the G20 summit held in the resort heaven that is Los Cabos, Mexico, the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies convened to discuss a whole host of issues, chief among them how to resolve the current… Read More ›
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When the Legend Becomes Fact: The Middle Class in America
Middle class—two words that are impregnated with more meaning and baggage than any other in the American lexicon. From our nation’s inception, that middle class was what set us apart from the stuffy Old World attitudes of Europe or (later… Read More ›
Southern Discomforts
by Drew Gibson My interest piqued this morning when I saw a link to a BBC News Magazine article on the current fiscal crisis in Europe with the sub-header: “Lessons from US history for the crisis-hit eurozone.” I assumed the… Read More ›
Sensing a Pattern Here?
Courtesy of the National Association of People With AIDS and the blog From Here To Eternity (www.dgsmith.org) is a map of the states that contain the 2,357 HIV positive Americans who are still on ADAP waiting lists and still with… Read More ›
Groping Our Way Through The Darkness
By Drew Gibson For the foreseeable future our national discourse will be dominated by incessant chatter about the upcoming presidential election in November. There will be debates and stump speeches with candidates promising things they can never deliver. We will… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 