America’s Different Democracy, or How Change Has Come to America America’s government is a Constitutional democracy that differs significantly from most other democracies, many of which do not have written constitutions and the majority of which are parliamentary. In parliamentary democracies, the country’s head-of-state is...
California Dreaming Californians for the last several decades have dreamed of making their State an American Utopia. And California’s governments accordingly have taken actions intended to help its citizens realize those Utopian dreams. The steps taken by government action and ballot-box referenda have shaped...
The Faithless Electors of America's Electoral College Americans have been complaining about the compromises that went into creation of the Electoral College for centuries … almost since the first days of the Republic. An editorial headline in the August 30th New York Times captured the...
Plutocrats and Plutocats A “plutocrat” is a person whose wealth gives him power – put simply, a “plutocrat” is a very, very rich person. Recently, however, the media and politicians have begun using the term “plutocrat” negatively pointedly … as a disparagement, a label that...
The Twitter Market Stock markets go up and stock markets go down. America’s current bull market has been going up since 2009, its longest run ever. It’s been buoyed by consistently positive U.S. GDP growth, massive government spending that has created massive Federal budget...
