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10 Reasons Why the Government is a Good Thing

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As English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote in 1651, life without government is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Don’t let the Republicans control the narrative that government “is bad” or “is the problem.” The argument is bogus. My father used to say that “civilization is the last bubble in a long fermentation.” He was a … Read more

Trial of The Century: opioid manufacturers to go on trial for the opioid epidemic

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Corporate malfeasance, i.e., knowingly putting a deadly product into the stream of commerce and promoting its use for profit knowing that it can kill its intended users is as old as the Republic. It was The Jungle by Upton Sinclair with its graphic descriptions of unsanitary conditions and unscrupulous practices rampant in the meatpacking industry that … Read more