#Gamergate: Beyond Fun and Games
Do you play video games? If so, you may be aware of an ongoing controversy that goes by the name #Gamergate. (∗See explanatory note at […]
economics
Stuff YOU Should Know
Unemployment Down, Optimism Up The data released each month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in particular, is watched very closely by […]
Stuff YOU Should Know
Tom Hanks Has an App? Best Actor Winner. Movie star. Former sitcom star. All-around nice guy. Technology developer? Tom Hanks, known to many as that […]
Stuff YOU Should Know
Workingman’s Holiday For many of us, the upcoming Labor Day means “last blast of summer” before returning to school (or a gentle reminder of summer […]
Women’s Equality Day
Tuesday, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day in the United States. This day commemorates the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment where women citizens in the […]
YOU DECIDE: The Comcast Merger
Should Comcast be Allowed to Merge with Time Warner Communications? Does your family have cable in your home? How about Internet access? If so, the […]
Economics of the Olympics
There’s been a lot of press out there about how the current Winter Olympic Games is the most expensive in history. But what does this […]
50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty
Solving the problem of poverty is a complicated issue as well as a continuing political hot-button topic in America. In 1964 then-president Lyndon B. Johnson […]
Looking Back at Two Decades of NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a treaty (like a formal contract) that was signed into law by the leaders of the United […]
Detroit Declares Bankruptcy
Back in the 1950s, Detroit, Michigan was a thriving city, the fourth largest in the United States. This success was due, in part, to the […]