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There is a great story in Jacques Poitras' Imaginary Line:  Life on an Unfinished Border about how folks living on the U.S. northern bo...

There is a theory of international migration (one among many) called Dual Labor Market Theory.  This theory says that there are two very dif...

A few weeks ago I went off to Paris to a cute little bar called Joe Allen's for a public debrief of what happened during Overseas Americ...

A great video.  This is a U.S. Senate hearing about healthcare in the United States and Canada. The two senators asking questions are:   Ber...

I get questions from time to time about the state of the American political system.  Looking at it from outside the U.S., it really appears ...

Further reading of The Demands of Liberal Education late into the night revealed a chapter in the book that was just as interesting as the ...

In closing I would like to reiterate the need for the U.S. Census Bureau to count all Americans, including private citizens living and work...

“Hence, taxation appears to be one arena in which the stakes are tangible, salient, and large enough that individuals know what th...

Ask a simple question and sometimes the universe smiles at you and hands you a really good answer. In a previous post I talked about a tr...

Definition of exile: Noun-The state of being barred from one’s native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.  A person who l...