Commentary on the two Americas, snow, legalisation, civil war, US dollar renaissance, and the Canadian slowdown.

The Roosevelt and Regan Republics and why $15 a week matters.

New Yorker -- The Walmart Test: Payroll Taxes and the Social Contract
If you were to write a social history of America through the story of business, what would be the most significant companies in the years since the Second World War?

Commentary on declining fertility rates in the Muslim world, tired and huddled masses, cap and trade in New England, less living on $1.25 a day, the female board member European bottom line, the revenge of the deer, and what does fewer fires mean for firefighters.

Poor and old.

Commentary on the great wolf extermination, who has the stomach to raise taxes and cut spending, Japan examined, a summary of the history of ‘Indian’ removal in the United States, cashing out on bad weather, wonderful Manet, Japan’s blindness, and seven years on.

Human beings are great at stuff they put their minds to.

Commentary on the mind-body problem, the world’s biggest housing bubble, currency wars, the future of democracy in the West, human plague, reigning in central banks, and I’m Canadian not hyphenated.

I think therefore ...