This article is part of Uncommonwealth, a series of articles that discuss housing affordability, economic justice, and inequality in the United States. A few weeks ago, I was listening to a podcast on NPRon how homeownership in the United States had now become a luxury. There were… Read More »The Fallacy of Accumulation and Wealth
On legal process grounds, the U.S. Supreme Court has just ended the Federal eviction moratorium about halfway through its sixty-day extension. But eviction moratoriums in seven states and the District of Columbia continue, as the homelessness crisis the Federal moratorium was intended to curb persists.… Read More »The Eviction Crisis: Noise and Insight
The current conflict in Washington, dealing with the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, is the much anticipated, frequently promised, but poorly defined ‘infrastructure bill’. As it stands, two versions are possible – one preferred by centrist Democrats and a few moderate Republicans that… Read More »Infrastructure Problems Exacerbated by a Poor System of Taxation
Henry George was an American economist, social philosopher and reformer of the late 1800s. He is known chiefly for analyzing and promoting a single tax on land value, thus eliminating all other taxes. With no tax on trade, and no sales taxes and no tariffs,… Read More »Why I am a Georgist
I wrote the below article five years ago. Though time has passed, the issue of minimum wage continues to impact our political landscape, our economic landscape and our social landscape. Original article: Minimum wage laws have a superficial appeal, but are much less effective than… Read More »Replace Minimum Wages with the Earned Income Tax Credit
In the wake of George Floyd’s death and Derek Chauvin’s conviction for murder, the debate over whether and to what extent policing should be reformed in this country is, understandably, top-of-mind. However, the debate as currently framed shows little promise of being productive. The debate… Read More »Policing Reform: A Broader Perspective
The solution to the problem of police misconduct requires a radical restructuring, not just of the police, but also of the political and economic infrastructure that propagates social problems. The current social structure is that a mass of people, swayed by misleading propaganda, elect officials… Read More »Restructuring the Police
As Donald Trump continues to contest and hopes to overturn the 2020 election with unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, it is worth remembering that the United States has a long history of respecting the peaceful transfer of power, even when fraud was not just suspected,… Read More »History Continues to Repeat Itself on the Issue of Voter Fraud and Election Reform
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