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March 2017

March 26, 2017

Where does insurance end, and social insurance begin?

Insurance: a financial product in which a consumer buys a policy promising payment in the...

March 25, 2017

Veni, vidi, addixi: RIP, Ryancare

So it's official: the GOP has had so little support for the "American Health Care...

March 23, 2017

They’ve caught the bomb threat hoaxer! (and: can you be a Jewish anti-semite?)

They've caught the individual believed to be responsible for hoax bomb threats on JCCs, not...

March 21, 2017

American Culture, American Values, and Immigrants

Can we preserve American culture, and American values, with "other people's babies"? Representative Steven King...

March 20, 2017

Are you watching “This is Us”?

Spoiler alerts, for those who care about these sorts of things. I have to admit...

March 20, 2017

It’s the complacency, stupid! My new pet theory on secularism

Sure, there's probably tons written about this in the academic literature, but remember, I'm just...

March 17, 2017

Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?

Yeah, just a question. No agenda. Open forum -- do you celebrate? If so, why?...

March 17, 2017

Education is not a (positive) human right

Perhaps you remember this from history class in school: in the system of slavery as...

March 16, 2017

What else we lose when we’re “losing my religion”

New, must-read article in The Atlantic, by Peter Beinart: "Breaking Faith; The culture war over...

March 15, 2017

Who needs dental insurance?

There've been a number of opinion pieces again recently on the question of whether it's...

March 13, 2017

Making Science into a god

When you expect that scientists have the answers to moral questions. When you believe that...

March 12, 2017

Shortchanging Peoria – again

Back in February I wrote about Caterpillar's decision to move its headquarters from Peoria to...

March 12, 2017

“Climate Change is Real” (guest post)

Hey, everyone -- I said in my prior post that I'd been having real-world conversation....

March 11, 2017

How much does childbirth cost?

Just a quick link here: NPR published an article, "I'm Pregnant. What Would Happen If...

March 11, 2017

5 reasons I’m suspicious of climate change crusaders

So I've had some (gasp!) off-blog conversations about the whole issue of climate change/global warming....

March 10, 2017

Is Iceland “the first country to require equal pay for women”?

So says the headline of this NPR article, "Iceland Plans To Become World's First Country...

March 09, 2017

Who writes Holocaust memoirs?

How many Holocaust survivor narratives have you read? I can think of: Night Clara's War...

March 09, 2017

Janecare!

This is more a matter of aiming at opening up a discussion than anything else...

March 08, 2017

About that “strike” . . .

So there's a strike today. Did'ja notice? Yeah, me neither. Seriously, though, this is not...

March 07, 2017

The good, the bad, and the ugly: Ryancare edition

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. That's my overall reaction to the GOP's new healthcare bill....

March 04, 2017

What’s the purpose of deferred deportation?

For discussion: Here's a recent New York Times article on illegal immigrants with deportation orders...

March 04, 2017

Is Stop-and-Frisk the cure to Chicago’s gun violence?

That's what Bill Daley suggests in an opinion piece in the Tribune last Thursday. First,...

March 03, 2017

College-financing advice wanted!

Here's the reality: my son is a junior in high school. He's got good grades,...

March 03, 2017

The 94 million matter

So at his quasi-State of the Union, President Trump (I know, it's strange to be...

March 02, 2017

Fact-checking Emma Lazarus

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched...

March 02, 2017

What’s so “final” about your “final resting place”?

This is a little bit of an invitation for readers, as I've been thinking about...

March 01, 2017

What is Obamacare? (not “the ACA”)

Just a small ah-ha moment here during lunch break. How often have you heard the...

March 01, 2017

Fact-checking the fact-checkers

It did not take long for the AP to put out its fact-check of Trump's...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Trump predictions?

Yeah, let's play this game: what will Trump say tonight? In fact, let's do this...

February 28, 2017

The new, old world of bomb threats

Every day, it seems like, there's a new report of a bomb threat made to...

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