The Republican End State Counterfactual
(c) Josh Sager – September 2011 When we are all arguing policy with one another we sometimes fail to step back and look at the possible “end states” of our policies and ideology. Basically, if you...
View ArticleThe New Kleptocracy
© Josh Sager – August 2012 As posted on Wolf-PAC.com Throughout history, humans have arranged themselves into societies based around hierarchy and a system of selecting who is allowed to wield...
View ArticleThe Criminalization of Student Behavior
© Josh Sager – September 2012 Students in the United States are currently facing numerous problems with their educational system. These problems are widely varied and include issues ranging from the...
View ArticleFracking the Earth
© Josh Sager – November 2012 Fracking is a very dangerous, yet increasingly common practice in the United States. Hydraulic Fracturing extraction (“fracking”) is a method of breaking up oil shales...
View ArticleProgressive Strategy: Retaking the Term: “Patriotism”
(c) Josh Sager All too often in the United States, conservative Republicans are considered the “patriotic” political group, while liberals and progressives are labeled as “not real Americans” or...
View ArticleThe Private Prisons of America
By Josh Sager The United States is one of several modern countries which utilizes privatized prisons in conjunction with its public prisons system. The entire idea of “private” prisons is actually a...
View ArticleWhy American Public Schools are Failing
By Josh Sager The educational system in the United States is in dire trouble and there seems to be little real hope of effective reform in the near future. Our country’s once top-flight educational...
View ArticleThe Plan to Cut Budgets by Robbing Public Pensions
© Josh Sager – December 2013 Public budgets are strained across the United States—from the federal government all the way down to local cities—and something must be done in order to keep the sheets...
View ArticleThe Hidden National Security Threat: Dark Money Corruption
© Josh Sager – March 2014 The United States political system is currently experiencing a perfect storm of moneyed-interest corruption: wealthy groups and individuals are being allowed to donate...
View ArticleInfographic: Private Prison Injustice
The following info-graphic (made by “Online Paralegal Programs”) was sent to me by a reader to post. It gives a very short, but informative and disturbing summary of the corruption inherent to private...
View ArticleChester Uplands County: Charter Schools Waste Thousands, Public School...
© Josh Sager – September 2015 Today, 200 public school teachers working for the Chester Uplands County school district in Pennsylvania should be receiving their first paycheck during this school year....
View ArticleRex Iverson’s Death Illustrates True “American Exceptionalism”
© Josh Sager – February 2016 Politicians of both parties love to talk about “American exceptionalism” while rallying their supporters. This term refers to a nebulous sense common among many Americans...
View ArticleDOJ Announces a Reduction in its Private Prison Usage…With One Enormous Caveat
© Josh Sager – August 2016 Recently, the Department of Justice announced that has decided to start phasing out its utilization of private prisons to house its prisoners. Over the coming years, the DOJ...
View ArticleObamaCare Premiums Increase and Choices Decrease, Signals Time for Major Push...
© Josh Sager – October 2016 This week, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report indicating that the average insurance premium for a benchmark plan under the ACA...
View ArticleTranslating the GOP’s Obamacare Replacement Talking Points
© Josh Sager – January 2017 The inauguration of Donald Trump paves the way for the GOP to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare). While the exact timeline for this repeal...
View ArticleBetsy Devos Confirmed as Secretary of Education, Iceberg Ahead for American...
© Josh Sager – February 2017 Today, a theocratic ideologue who has no degree in public policy, has never taught in school, and who doesn’t support a strong public school system in the USA was confirmed...
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