“Publicly subsidized, privately profitable/ The anthem of the upper-tier puppeteer, untouchable” — Propaghandi, “And We Thought Nation-States Were A Bad Idea…” If you ask a dumb question, you get a dumb answer. Texas courts have been asking a very dumb…

Puerto Rico is still in the midst of a crisis. Though many Americans’ attention has moved onwards, 75 percent of the island remains without power. The amount of time it has taken to restore power to Puerto Rican residents’ homes…

Thomas Jefferson once asked if man had “found angels in the form of kings to govern him.” You wouldn’t know the question was rhetorical if you went by the mournful stories in the Texas media Wednesday about Joe Straus, the…

Unlike most of the federal government, which is marked by unintended failure and inefficiency, the Department of Agriculture usually manages to fulfill its mission. Unfortunately, its mission is to throw money away. It ought to be called the Department of…

The crisis of confidence in the pharmaceutical industry remains one of the least well-reported elements of contemporary politics. And despite numerous scandals surrounding mismanagement and price gouging by Pharma companies, the proverbial big Kahuna of the industry’s scandals is undoubtedly…

It’s tempting, at a moment when Republicans are falling just short of the votes they need to accomplish even a mild reform of Obamacare, to imagine what they could do if we just sent a few more of them to…

Republicans pretend that they are powerless to do more about the great ship Obamacare than to change the fuel on which it runs and rearrange its deck chairs — never mind to sink it. Because they lack 60 votes to…