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(ThyBlackMan.com) American businesses have long practiced what political scientists call regulatory capture. A company that cannot repeal a law takes control of the people the government put in charge of enforcing it. The airlines did it to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which in 40 years never approved a new trunk ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Five seemingly unrelated developments — the Supreme Court’s intervention in mail-in ballot rules, a federal judge’s decision affecting foreign students and journalists, the blockade threatening Saudi Arabia, an unusual alliance in Michigan politics, and the accelerating power of artificial intelligence — are testing whether American institutions can exercise authority ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you run a private behavioral health practice, you already know the math: every note you don’t finish during the session follows you home. Solo therapists, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, and psychiatrists routinely lose hours each week to documentation – and the wrong system multiplies that drag while ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Inflation hasn’t gone away — it’s going up. With the midterm elections seven weeks off, that’s a problem for the president and Congress. Voters hate inflation. They don’t much like the cure either, and the cure has two parts. The Federal Reserve raising interest rates, like it just did, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the primary tenets of the American legal system is the importance of precedent; the common law doctrine of “stare decisis” means “to stand by things decided.” The purpose of law in such a system is to provide stability and predictability, so that people can conform their conduct ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the vibrant and ever-evolving world of ecommerce, creativity is not just an asset—it’s a necessity. The digital storefront is the modern-day canvas where imagination meets technology, creating an immersive experience that can captivate and convert visitors into loyal customers. The art of ecommerce merchandising is about more than ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are accustomed to a lot of words. In today’s world, unlike the ancient world, we have a surfeit of words flying at us from all directions; from television and radio, from cinemas and the stage, from the press and magazines, from billboards and placards, from the internet and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last week our country commemorated the 25th anniversary since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was a solemn reminder of the real, persistent threat from adversaries who hate America and the freedoms she stands for. We owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude to the brave men and women who proudly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have watched a lot of famous Black men learn the hard way that fame arrives with a leash attached. Somebody hands you money and a platform, and buried in the fine print sits an expectation that you will now say the approved thing, at the approved hour, in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, and most people don’t want to be virtuous. Which ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Individualism is a social and political philosophy that places the highest value on the independence, rights, and self-reliance of the single person over the group or state as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. It is the core belief that each person should think and act freely rather than depend on others ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let married couples with a stay-at-home spouse collect federal welfare benefits. The money comes from a 1990s Health and Human Services fund meant to cover daycare so low-income parents could work or go to school. About 870,000 families draw on ...
