State of the Economy
With President Biden giving his State of the Union address yesterday, this is a good time to look at the state of the economy. Here are graphs showing where the economy has been going the ....
Category: Geography/Economics/Politics
Europe Does More Than US for Ukraine
How much do you think European countries are spending on Ukraine? Short answer is: they are spending a bigger fraction of their GDP to help Ukraine than we are. And more total money too. The ....
Israel and Palestine: The Dialectic of Death
Arsonist Rewarded with Gift of House He Set on Fire In January, 2001, Israel and the Palestinian Authority met in Taba, Egypt, to hammer out a final agreement to end the century-long conflict between Jews ....
Infographic: Israel/Palestine Since the Peace Treaty
In 1993 Israel and representatives of the Palestinians signed the Declaration of Principles, commonly called the Oslo Accord, in which both sides agreed to peacefully settle the Israel/Palestine conflict. Since then, the region has continued ....
Israel/Palestine: The Attack
1. Parable of Israel and Palestine A man named Sky is on the second floor of a burning building. He opens a window and jumps out to escape the flames. He lands on and knocks ....
A Visit to Arkansas
Why Arkansas? “To me, Passion Plays always seemed menacing. They make me picture peasants coming out of a Passion Play on Easter and chasing Jews down the street in a pogrom. But now that I ....
Can You Draw the United States?
Can you draw a map of the United States – showing all the states – without looking at a map for guidance? I feel like I should be able to. I remember copying a map ....
United States Annual Budget, Part II
The federal government spent about 6.4 trillion dollars ($6.4 T) in Fiscal Year 2022 (October 2021 to September 2022). That’s about a quarter of the United States’ 25 trillion-dollar GDP, or about $20,000 per person ....
United States Annual Budget, Part I
Some day I’d like to write an Owners’ Manual to the United States with a summary of how our country operates – things many of us know hazily but can get easily confused on the ....
Where Are Those Eight Billion People?
With the UN estimating that the world population reached eight billion people on 15 November 2022, now is a good time to look at where those people live. The World in 2020 First let’s look ....