Letters to a Trump Voter – I
PDF version: letters1.pdfDownload 24 September 2020 Dear Dad, I have voted in every presidential election since 1984, and I am pretty sure that I never voted for the same candidate as you. In all that ....
Category: Geography/Economics/Politics
What’s Unique about US COVID Deaths?
How Are We Doing? How has the United States fared in the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other countries? As the country passed an estimated 200,000 deaths from the virus this week, news reports repeated the ....
We can reshore Manufacturing Jobs, but Trump Hasn’t
Article by Robert E. Scott, Economic Policy Institute, 10 August 2020 Summary by Barry A. Klinger “President Trump’s erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative rhetoric. ....
My Size/Intensity Technique Shows Up in Washington Post?
For a few years now, I have been experimenting with a way to display demographic, economic, political, and other data via "size/intensity" or "box" plots. The idea is that if you want to compare some ....
Book Review: Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote
Carol Anderson’s essential One Person, No Vote tells how the Jim Crow era prevented African Americans from voting, offering some surprising facts about a story we thought we knew. It goes on to describe how ....
Portland Disturbances Week by Week
Photo of federal officers, Portland, Oregon, 6/18/20, REUTERS/Nathan Howard, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/federal-government-under-scrutiny-for-crackdown-on-portland-protesters?ref=hvper.com. 1) Everything Trump does is about publicity. He didn't want a Wall to stop illegal immigrants, he wanted a Wall to symbolize stopping illegal immigrants. ....
Mistreated Food Workers are a COVID Hotspot
Jane Mayer’s article “Back to the Jungle,” in the 20 July New Yorker, looks at the labor struggle in a Delaware poultry plant as a microcosm of how food workers in America today are at ....
Competitive Senate Races
The Senate is currently 53/45/2 Republicans/Democrats/Independents (the 2 Independents usually vote with the Democrats). Given how the country is sick, economically depressed, and wracked by protests under the guidance of the Republicans, Democrats have a ....
US COVID Deaths: Update
How is the US doing now that lockdown is being eased in many states? 13 weeks of weekly COVID-19 deaths/capita, for different sets of states. Here is a 3D version of the figure shown in ....
Police Attacking Journalists During Protests
Excel spreadsheet: policeJournalists-1Download Journalists have made numerous reports this past weekend of attacks on themselves by police. This has occurred in many jurisdiction and (especially in Minneapolis) to many different news sources. I've created this ....