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David E. Gumpert is author of "Gouster Girl," a historical novel about white flight in 1960s Chicago, told through the eyes of a white teenager involved in an interracial romance. He is co-author of "Inge: A Girl's Journey Through Nazi Europe," about his family's efforts to escape Germany during the 1930s. In addition, he is author of three books on food safety and regulation, most recently "The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You REALLY Need to Know About Our Most Controversial Food". He has been a business journalist with The Wall Street Journal, and an editor at The Harvard Business Review and Inc. magazine, and author of five books on various aspects of entrepreneurship, including "How to Really Start Your Own Business" and "Burn Your Business Plan."
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, September 17, 2021 How Would Typhoid Mary Be Treated Today: Pariah or Hero?
A century ago, Typhoid Mary earned the disdain of Americans for her cavalier attitude about spreading disease. One has to wonder if she'd be even a little disdained in today's anti-mandate atmosphere.
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(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 16, 2020 Counting Down the End of Trump's Term, Day By Agonizing Day
Donald Trump's refusal to concede the election and his flirtation with the notion of a coup invites serious long-term consequences many Americans likely don't appreciate.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 30, 2020 Maybe the Answer to Police Lynchings Is Non-Racist Cops
Police murders of blacks have been going on for decades. If we are to put a stop to these lynchings, urban police departments need to make clear they won't tolerate racist cops. That may sound difficult, but the reality is that it is possible to screen out racist cops.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 29, 2020 Even As Covid-based Meat Crisis Leads to Shortages, USDA Focuses on Crushing a Small Meat-Producing Farm
Even while America's corporate meat system has imploded with Covid-19 illnesses, the USDA continues to focus on harassing a small Amish-run farm in Pennsylvania. Making matters worse, the agency insists on carrying out its aggressive inspection campaign without proper safety gear, social distancing, masks, and other protocols, the farmer asserts. Are the inspectors just taking their cues from the big boss?
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, May 18, 2020 Why Are the Feds Trying to Erase Vitamin Protocols for COVID-19?
The federal government has forced the erasure of a popular holistic blog by a family medicine MD, because it published protocols and testimonials about how vitamins may help heal treat COVID-19. It's all part of a wider campaign on science by the Trump administration.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 10, 2020 Baseball Tells the Story of America's Huge Pandemic Whiff
Professional baseball is being played, just not in the U.S. The shutdown of "America's pastime" encapsulates a tale of American bungling and incompetence. Now, the country clings to one slim hope for escape from the ravages of the pandemic.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 19, 2020 How Does This Nightmare Pandemic Movie End?
If our pandemic lockdown were a movie, we've arrived at a pivotal moment. Do we unlock the economy and risk uncontrolled illnesses? Or do we keep things locked down and risk a depression? Universal testing could provide a way forward, but a surprise ending may come with the arrival of November's scheduled election.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 16, 2020 In Defense of Michael Bloomberg's Mindset on Race and Urban Crime
Michael Bloomberg is coming under the miscroscope now for past comments he's made about urban crime. But before reflexively categorizing him as a closet racist, people of all persuasions should be aware of the past he comes from, when racial polarization in northern cities was more extreme than liberals often like to remember.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Trump: My Father Made Me Do It
A new expose on the Trump family's questionable tax-avoidance escapades helps us at long last understand some of the president's most troubling traits, including his disrespect for the law, his lying, and his cruelty to the vulnerable.
(34 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 28, 2018 Is There Some Hidden Gain in America's Infatuation with Russia?
America's right wing is increasingly enchanted by closer American-Russian relations. It's easy to understand why Putin wants to be on more favorable footing with the U.S. But what does the U.S. stand to gain by being closely allied with Russia? That is the unspoken question, maybe because it doesn't have an easy answer.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 31, 2018 Once Children Become Political Fodder, Look Out Below
The Holocaust should have taught us about the warning lights that flash once children become accepted targets for political abuse. Now they flash once again with the targeting for political bullying of survivors of the Parkland, FL, school massacre.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 17, 2018 One Easy Way to Turn Back the Clock on Gun Massacres
There was a time 30-40 years ago when the U.S. had minimal gun restrictions in place, and little concern was expressed that the Second Amendment was in danger. Yet in recent years, we as a country seem intent on loosening any and all restrictions on guns, even for children and the mentally ill, and even as the frequency of gun massacres mount.
(61 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 10, 2018 Is Trump's Reichstag-Fire Moment Close at Hand?
Trump has been following the "Hitler game plan" for tyranny in many ways. Is his next move to exploit a Reichstag-fire moment?