Author Caroline Miller ruminates on the rise of Democratic Socialism in American politics and its appeal at a time when the government seems paralyzed or too corrupted to serve the people.

Author Caroline Miller ruminates on the rise of Democratic Socialism in American politics and its appeal at a time when the government seems paralyzed or too corrupted to serve the people.

Author Caroline Miller ruminates on whether America deserves the leaders that it gets and assesses the country's chances of restoring the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

A recent health publication warned readers against accumulating clutter. Clutter taxes the mind, it said.  Then it went on to explain that when we force our brains to focus on many things, ”our performance with each task can become less efficient.” (“Less Mess, Less Stress,”

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What follows below is a test.  Read the italicized statements and identify the speaker.  Is it Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamie Dimon, or Steve Bannon? *You have to break the mindset that stock buybacks are fine, that crony capitalism is fine, and that tax breaks for

Like the boy who cried wolf, U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders has long blamed oligarchs for weakening our democracy. Of late, his prognostications ring true.  Vast fortunes concentrated in the hands of large corporations and a few individuals have weakened the middle class, leading the

(I’m taking a lap victory by repeating my blog of November 2020, after Joe Biden’s defeat of Donald Trump.)                                      *** The 2020 election makes clear that neither political party will be setting the course for the country. Gr

When my mother moved into assisted living, I became the landlord for her half of the duplex.  My first tenant was an art historian with a Ph.D. He’d moved to Oregon after working several years as an adjunct instructor at a midwestern university. Perhaps he hoped to find tenured wor

A recent article in Business Insider pit the brains of humans against whales and the whales won.   That was two hundred years ago when Sperm whales learned to avoid the fishermen’s harpoons by swimming against the wind that powered the schooners.  History records that out of  80