Tag: economics

  • Big History in South Carolina

    Big History in South Carolina

    Nikki Haley and the American Civil War Nikki Haley (right) and former President Donald Trump during a 2018 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. | Photo c/o The White House. Frederick Douglass, like anyone worth their salt in nineteenth-century America, loved quoting scripture. Douglass, in his essay “The Union and How to Save It,”…

  • Sleeping Rough

    Sleeping Rough

    The Fear and Loathing of America’s Homeless Precariousness is a feature of the twenty-first century. As of mid-2023, 62% of American adults were living paycheck to paycheck. This says nothing about the spouses or children that also live in these cash-strapped households. We exist in a state of perpetual insecurity that is neither an accident nor…