Politics, Arts and Culture in Flyover America
Let’s Leave Politics to the Professionals
We can thank New York City real estate developer and franchise licenser Donald J. Trump for putting to rest one of the longest-running debates in American political history, one that began even before we became a country: Can a candidate with a strictly business background make the federal government more efficient, less wasteful and more…
Lessons Learned and Not Learned from the 1918 Flu Epidemic
The deadly flu pandemic of 1918, which began in the United States and ended up killing upwards of 60 million people and infecting about 500 million – about a third of the world’s population — caught the world off guard and set off a literally life-and-death struggle to stop it. In 1918, much of the…
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The Bitter Heartland: Toxic Class Resentment Among Rural and Small-town Americans
We are living in an age of resentment, a sentiment that often leads to anger but is not the same thing. Resentment shapes today’s politics, especially but not exclusively on the right. It is dangerous, especially if ignored. Resentment is literally an emotion that is “felt again,” repeatedly. Anger can be transitory; it can flare…
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