“Prices of homes, rental units, employees, healthcare, autos, food, staples, transportation, commodities, etc., are rising. Is there anything that isn't politicized in 21st Century America?” – The Lonely Realist The inflationary picture (as well as almost everything else in America’s economy) rests in the capable hands...
“America is facing a disproportionate number of existential threats. They can’t be successfully navigated without common agreement that they exist...
The best way for America’s government to address illegality and provide an effective defense against predatory practices is by enacting laws that provide for Americans’ protection. Protecting its citizens is a cornerstone of American democracy, which is why America has so many consumer protection, investor...
"Overlapping laws and regulations hurt America. Simplification and reconciliation should be a bipartisan objective." – The Lonely Realist A distinctive feature of democratic government is that rules and regulations are relatively easy to add … and virtually impossible to adjust revise improve dilute, yet alone eliminate. ...
The Gordian Knot is a legend about Alexander the Great in which his cutting the Knot became a metaphor for solving an intractable problem. Alexander reputedly accomplished the seemingly impossible challenge of untying the Knot by efficiently slicing through it with his sword. America would find...
TLR continues to ponder the question of what makes democracy so attractive and so enduring … and, more recently, so unstable (having discussed “The Widening Partisan Divide” here, America’s “Degenerative Democracy” here, and “America’s Broken Constitution” here). What is the secret ingredient that has made...