Politics: a view from the prairie

 If you read the Wikipedia article on CRT, you will be a little confused. You get that it has some legal meaning in court cases, that's ...

We have a midterm election coming. The voters always think of the president two years before and their promises. If things are not clearly b...

Who knew? There are experiments from the 1930s onward testing the will of people when faced with a rigged experiment or placed in groups. Te...

A poll this week by Gallup discovered a shift in 2021 to the Republican side, from Democrats and independents. I did not find it meaningful....

 I was interested in conspiracy theories before, so I made a note of this book earlier. The book moves onto politics near the end. Though th...

 The US was initially 13 states, and they were fairly independent. There was not even a common currency at the start. The current Supreme Co...

The book covers much the material that other books do. There are no interviews of actual voters that voted for populists, so we are stuck w...

The wages are going up. This is good news. You can look for the video by Robert Reich with Chipotle in the title. What happened was not even...

I am taking a class for seniors with the "down the rabbit hole" phrase in the title. My third class on conspiracy theory was a bit...

The book covers Poland, the UK and Spain well. She also knows Putin's Russia better than most of us. She speaks Polish. But the US is no...