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Why America Needs to Bring Its Rich to Heel
(Blog Post) Sociology trumps mythology. We have one of the lowest rates of inter-generational social mobility of any industrial country. Income and wealth have become more not less ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Those Chickens: The Economic Crisis and America's Poor and Struggling
Banks made greater profits on sub-prime loans because they could charge working class and near-power households more for their mortgages. They sold them in packages at higher ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Mufti and the General
I was impressed with the Mufti. He had summarized a quite complex debate into a very succinct articulation of the tension between Islam and the West. But there was still one ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Senator Clinton and the ABCs (Anybody but Clinton)
Obama is the "Hail Mary" pass of American politics because our political system has no game plan, no plays to move the country toward mending its ways and sorting out how to ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Peace Process Delusion
A serious pandemic of delusion is gripping the world. Ground Zero for the spread of this scourge was in Annapolis, Maryland in late November. Within hours, millions of ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Biofuels: All You Need to Know for a Bar Discussion
There is an enormous amount of news reports, analysis, discussion and media attention given to biofuels. One is first struck by the incredible variety of opinions expressed ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Pitching Prescriptions and Patient Empowerment
The pharmaceutical industry in the United States and worldwide is a big business. That's why its critics (and now some Wall Street analysts too) call it "Big Pharma." In the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Alien Life May Be "Weirder" Than Scientists Think
Instead of thriving on water, extraterrestrial organisms might live in a sea of liquid methane. Or instead of getting energy from the sun, they might thrive on hydrochloric ...Posted by Leo Romero -
The New Plessy versus Ferguson and White Privilege
There is something odious about privilege. In this case, white privilege. On June 28, the Supreme Court ruled in Parents Involved in Community Schools versus Seattle School ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Did Bernard Kouchner really endorse the Iraq War?
Kouchner had long decried the tyrannical horrors of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and he often berated the international community for not coming together to remove the dictator, but ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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America, the Cold War, and the Taliban
(Blog Post) Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Cold War was raging hot in many parts of the world. The US funded proxy wars all over the globe, including (but not limited to) Laos, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The President-Elect and India
the letter speaks of future cooperation that will "tap the creativity and dynamism of our entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists," particularly in the area of alternative ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Still Not Wise
Most Americans continue to rely on the government to provide for their retirement. But with everyone unsure about future Medicare and Social Security benefits, including our ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Protein Computer Games: Me Fold Pretty One Day: Scientific American
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Barack is Black: That's a relief!
Obama ran a successful post-racial campaign in a US that is not post-racial. He ran that for three reasons. The first is a pragmatic political one. As a Black candidate in ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Carrots for the General
In the case of Burma under General Than Shwe and his military junta, no carrots have been tried, to my knowledge. Sticks in many shapes and sizes have been brandished and ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Gift Horse: Philanthropy and the Public Interest
A dollar passed to a homeless person, a dollar to kids selling candy for their band, or another to a Salvation Army soldier on a street corner at Christmas time - these little ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Why Governments should do nothing about climate change (except one thing)
All government efforts at subsidizing research, mandating blending-specifications or installing emissions standards are probably futile but more likely counter-productive. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Price of Wheat in Russia, Or Everyday Inflation and Us
We've got it bad, and that ain't good. But as usual, poor people here and abroad have it worse. Poor people in the US spend more of their income on food. Though the majority ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Prince of Poets: Arab Poetry's Answer to American Idol
Imagine an American TV network deciding to take the American Idol format and apply it to poetry; lining up poets to read their poems in front of temperamental judges while the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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