At War With Millennials
by Kevin Kelton There are some 80 million millennials in the U.S. today, approximate 25% of the country and 31% of the voting-age population. And they seem angry. As I...
Is Raising the Minimum Wage Really Progressive? Why I Say No.
by D.J. McGuire Amazon’s announcement that it will pay all its employee no less than $15 per hour (with a call for the rest of American businesses to do...
Pop Goes The Politial Culture, Week of September 24, 2018
Oh, hi there, MPU-universe. Hang on a second. I’m just trying to put out this dumpster fire over here but it just keeps burning. This week has been truly...
Pop Goes The Political Culture, Week of September 17, 2018
by Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU-cohost Welcome back, MPU-inverse. How are you? I’m exhausted. I would like just one week in 2018 to last an actual week. It seems like weeks...
Partisan Politics Metastasize to Supreme Court
by Kevin Kelton When Americans bemoan the divisive hyper-partisan tone of our politics today, we invariably point fingers at the current POTUS. But he is only one of many...
No, my fellow conservatives, the regulation rollbacks aren’t worth supporting Trump either
by D.J. McGuire The standard defense a Trump supporter uses – well, the ones not wholly subsumed by racism or by authoritarian cultism – involves three political issues: the...
Do Your Job But Live Your Dream
by Kevin Kelton It used to be that a young person graduated high school or college, tossed aside the whims of childhood dreams, and set out to build an...
Pop Goes The Political Culture, Week of September 10, 2018
by Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU co-host OMG, MPU-inverse. This week. This freakin’ week. If you’re like me, you’re probably getting focused on the midterms. It’s go time and we’re all...
Pop Goes The Political Culture, Week of September 3, 2018
by An Anonymous Trump Staffer Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU co-host Greetings MPU-niverse! We’ve made it through the last days of summer and, here on the east coast at least, we’re...
Keep the ‘Adults in the Room’ in the Room
by Kevin Kelton For almost two years Americans have been saying, “I hope there are adults in the room to protect the country from President Donald Trump’s worst instincts.”...
My Fellow Democrats, We’re Becoming the Party of Freer Markets (Try Not to Faint)
by D.J. McGuire When I chose to become a Democrat (a few hours after Trump was declared the victor of the presidential election), I expected a difficult period of...
To My Fellow Conservatives: The Judiciary is NOT Worth It
by D.J. McGuire The behavior and policies of the president continue to shock and to dismay – especially for conservatives such as myself (yes, I still use the noun)....
Pop Goes The Political Culture, Week of October 15, 2018
By Rebekah Kuschmider, MPU co-host Hello, hello MPU-niverse! Remember how on the podcast last week we were lamenting how it had been a slow news week? Well, we won’t...