Harvey Gold

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Curricula still focus on memorization, forcing students to remember quantity over quality. Names, dates, and places must be regurgitated for history tests, and conjugation tables must be memorized for language exams. Instead of real-world skills, the education system focuses on furthering academic achievement. We use tests to measure students’ ability, and schools have curated their curriculums to prepare pupils for these tests. Kids are taught to succeed in the classroom, with little thought given to the outside world. Memorization is not a life skill…Continue Reading

U.S. Democracy is Dying from Voter Neglect

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For a nation that proudly portrays itself as the protector of democratic principles, we have done an incredibly lousy job of practicing what we preach. The result is that U.S. democracy is dying from neglect. For instance: We have a party (Republicans) devoted to making it harder, not easier forContinue Reading

Trump’s Lies About Amazon and the Post Office

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Harvey Gold President Trump issued an unexpected and typically uninformed…well…stupid, executive order Thursday night creating a federal task force to investigate the U.S. Postal Service’s finances, including its pricing and workforce costs. “The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout,” theContinue Reading

Hope During the Age of Trump

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Harvey Gold Despite my daughter constantly telling me that I’m not old, (and that my articles are too damn long) I have been on this earth for a lot of cycles around the sun. I remember when the news meant Walter Cronkite (the Most Trusted Man in America). I rememberContinue Reading