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Is Qu??bec ???Latin America????

The very question, is Québec Latin America, is so absurd, how can I even ask it? I ask because it is an absurd question to those…

A French in America

One of the biggest complaints from many Americans who have stayed in France is that they had a hard time making new friends. Some have often…

I Too, Sing America

Ifind it easy to become disenchanted and discouraged by our prospects for the future here in America. We seem to be getting more polarized, angrier, less…

Discovering Whiteness in America

Ifyou are one of the millions of Americans who has filled in a family tree you will be familiar with the problem genealogists call a “brick…

A Five Party America

As a product manager who routinely does market segmentation, this was absolutely fascinating. First off — doesn’t this make sense?! The Republican Party is probably going…

The Mentality of the Gun in America

With every Nashville, Uvalde, or Parkland, I think of the families of the 20 six-and-seven-year-old children and 6 staff killed in Sandy Hook. The 19 children…

The Midterms Broke America in Half

I’ve seen many laud the lack of a “Red wall” as a victory, but perhaps what’s happened is just as bad, if not worse, in the…

Will High-Speed Rail Make Money in America?

Answering this question is tough because Amtrak, a federally owned corporation, operates most of America’s intercity passenger trains. Similarly, Via Rail, a Crown Corporation (government-owned company),…

What Degrowth Means in America

Degrowth is slowly (one might say, at a snail’s pace) catching on. Last year’s IPCC report made reference to the term some 27 times. Scholars around the…

Celebrating MLK Day in a Divided America

This year, news coverage of the MLK Jr. Day holiday proved even more widely varied and incendiary than in previous years. From musings on “Why So…

Celebrating MLK Day in a Divided America

This year, news coverage of the MLK Jr. Day holiday proved even more widely varied and incendiary than in previous years. From musings on “Why So…

Atheist in Christian America

I was finishing the morning dishes when I saw the strobe of police lights out my kitchen window as several cop cars pulled up to a…