Dining Alone in a Hyper-Competitive World - The Globalist

Dining Alone in a Hyper-Competitive World - The Globalist: What can solo dining tell us about the way of life we lead?

A resolution for 2018: reform our criminal injustice system

A resolution for 2018: reform our criminal injustice system: Summary: John Pfaff's Locked In describes our broken criminal justice system, its myths and secrets -- and why reforms consistently fail. It is one of the most important books of the year. Let's hope America pays attention.   A review of an important book. Locked In. The True Causes of Mass Incarceration — and How to…

All human history is ordered to the birth of Christ | News | Lifesitenews

All human history is ordered to the birth of Christ | News | Lifesitenews: Christ is indeed the King of history.

Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump's National Security Strategy - Texas National Security Review

Policy Roundtable: What to Make of Trump's National Security Strategy - Texas National Security Review

The never-ending crisis of Zionism

The never-ending crisis of Zionism: Seven years ago it was a viral video of a Palestinian boy weeping as his father was arrested by occupying soldiers. Now it's viral video of a Palestinian girl slapping Israeli soldiers. The occupation is endlessly horrifying to American liberal Zionists but they never do anything about it concretely. They just have their never-ending crisis. Their ethnocentrism ought to horrify their own children.

How the baby boomers — not millennials — screwed America - Vox

How the baby boomers — not millennials — screwed America - Vox: "The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it."

“The American Dream Is Rapidly Becoming The American Illusion”, UN Special Rapporteur On Extreme Poverty And Human Rights

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/12/23/the-american-dream-is-rapidly-becoming-the-american-illusion-un-special-rapporteur-on-extreme-poverty-and-human-rights/

End of a dream as the nuclear power industry dies

End of a dream as the nuclear power industry dies: Summary: After decades of promises about its potential, the window of opportunity is closing for nuclear power. Hated by the Left despite its carbon-free generation of electricity, their opposition plus decades of utilities' screw-ups have weakened it. New energy tech -- renewables and fracking -- appear to be finishing it off. The prediction of "too…

When God Drew Near: Entering into the Joy of Christmas

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How Inequality Kills

How Inequality Kills: Contrary to the assumptions of left-liberal commentators, neoliberalism is not merely a bad policy adopted by “greedy” elites. It is in fact a fundamental systemic rejection of the post-laissez-faire settlement put in place in just about all of the developed capitalist countries after the Second World War. Out with the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society and forward with what is essentially a resurrection of 1920s capitalism. Because capitalism is a globally integrated system, if neoliberalism exists on a significant scale anywhere, it must exist everywhere.

Boston-area paramedics on front lines of U.S. opioid crisis

Boston-area paramedics on front lines of U.S. opioid crisis: The paramedics find them everywhere - slumped over car steering wheels, barely breathing in doughnut shop bathrooms or dead in derelict apartments and expensive mansions.

The Opioid Crisis Is Getting Worse, Particularly for Black Americans - The New York Times

The Opioid Crisis Is Getting Worse, Particularly for Black Americans - The New York Times: As fentanyls enter the illegal drug supply in more places, overdose deaths rise, helping cause the first consecutive drop in U.S. life expectancy in half a century.

The single biggest reason America is failing in its response to the opioid epidemic - Vox

The single biggest reason America is failing in its response to the opioid epidemic - Vox: We need to stop treating addiction as a moral failure — or more people will die.

These maps show how Americans are dying younger. It’s not just the opioid epidemic. - Vox

These maps show how Americans are dying younger. It’s not just the opioid epidemic. - Vox: It’s extremely unusual to see death rates increase in a developed country like the US. And researchers say it’s not just about economic despair.

US nuclear tests killed American civilians on a scale comparable to Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Quartz

US nuclear tests killed American civilians on a scale comparable to Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Quartz: When the US entered the nuclear age, it did so recklessly. New research suggests that the hidden cost of developing nuclear weapons were far larger than previous estimates, with radioactive fallout responsible for 340,000 to 690,000 American deaths from 1951 to 1973. The study, performed by University of Arizona economist Keith Meyers, uses a novel method (pdf) to...

I'm A Brown Woman Who's Breaking Up With The Democratic Party | HuffPost

I'm A Brown Woman Who's Breaking Up With The Democratic Party | HuffPost: I realize now that the love has been one-sided.

Why Democrats folded on a DACA fix.

Why Democrats folded on a DACA fix.: Democratic leaders decline to gamble on a government shutdown.

How Trump's tax bill may affect blue collar workers - Business Insider

How Trump's tax bill may affect blue collar workers - Business Insider: The disconnect between liberal grassroots activists and Democratic leaders is growing.

Storm clouds gathering over Korean peninsula, Mattis tells US troops, United States News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

Storm clouds gathering over Korean peninsula, Mattis tells US troops, United States News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: WASHINGTON - Storm clouds are gathering over the Korean Peninsula, Defence Secretary James Mattis has told soldiers and airmen of the elite 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain - Bloomberg

Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain - Bloomberg: Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware.