Editors Note: This column was originally published in the April 3, 2024 issue of the Chronicle Progress.
Karl Marx would be proud.
Editors Note: This column was originally published in the April 10, 2024 issue of the Chronicle Progress.
When word came out of Texas on April 1 that avian flu had made another unwelcome hop—this one from a dairy cow to a human—the news seemed like an April Fool’s joke.
Editors Note: This column was originally published in the April 3, 2024 issue of the Chronicle Progress.
Karl Marx would be proud.
Editors Note: This column was originally published in the April 3, 2024 issue of the Chronicle Progress.
Even when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finds enough baling wire to lash together the votes needed to pass the split, almost six-months late 2023 federal budget, it’s little more than a signal to some of his GOP colleagues to heat up the tar and gather the feathers to embarrass the Lousianan at the moment of his victory.
Editors Note: This column was originally published in the March 27, 2024 issue of the Chronicle Progress.
The uncommitted voters of Michigan say “Jump,” and Chuck Schumer asks “How high”?
Editors Note: This column was originally published in the March 27, 2024 issue of the Chronicle Progress.
The first economist, Scotland’s Adam Smith, had it right almost 250 years ago when, as writer Eric Schlosser notes in the foreword of an important new book by Iowan Austin Frerick, that “...merchants and manufacturers were ‘an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public.’”