Inequality
Red States, Blue States and wishy washy journalism
Interesting story by Dan Balz of the WPost on polarization – the increase of single party control in the States. But also example of wishy-washy on-the-hand-on-the-other-hand journalism. http://wapo.st/1lreL6O (It is truly amazing that Supreme Court Justice has stopped reading the Washington Post because he finds it so incredibly biased and prefers to read the fair…
Continue readingThe Paradox of the New Elite
IT’S a puzzle: one dispossessed group after another — blacks, women, Hispanics and gays — has been gradually accepted in the United States, granted equal rights and brought into the mainstream. At the same time, in economic terms, the United States has gone from being a comparatively egalitarian society to one of the most unequal…
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