In one simple graph, Quartz shows why Republicans want to make it harder for you to vote: In an analysis of “voting convenience, identification requirements, poll…
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South Dakota has a stealth voucher program, allowing fatcat insurers and anti-public-school legislators to skirt the Establishment Clause and launder public dollars to subsidize religious schools.…
In a new Atlantic article on the maladaptation of the smartphone generation, psychology professor Jean M. Twenge says a decline in independent behaviors (which she…
My neighbor Joe Berns offered a solid critique last week of the Koch Brothers’ flunkies’ claims that American capitalism works great for everybody. New Harvard…
Chiropractor Fred Deutsch really doesn’t like the assisted-suicide initiative petition currently circulating in South Dakota. The conservative Christian and former legislator continues to oppo-brand the measure…
USA Today features a Boston Consulting Group report on America’s waning lead in industrial innovation. We’re still investing in and churning out more basic and applied research…
Having trouble pronouncing your doctor’s name? Your prognosis just improved by 0.4 percentage points. A new study published in the British Medical Journal finds Medicare patients treated…
The informative and successful New York Times (our President-Elect inserts gratuitous adjectives in his figmentary statements, so why shouldn’t I include some bonus descriptors in my factual…
Attorney General Marty Jackley doesn’t want Indians growing pot. But he’s open to more research that could support legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. In a press release…
Amidst the wreckage of that Sioux Falls paper (which will now be run from Fort Collins, Colorado), Jonathan Ellis reports that foreign-born inmates make up just a…