What origin story does Biden have in common with our top-tier presidents? When people made light of Joseph Robinette Biden’s speech patterns during the campaign, I thought, “but he’s talked like that for decades.” …

Find out what happens when you forget to buy candy for (a normal) Halloween. (First printed in the Indyweek.com.) The look on my wife’s face told me that she didn’t think handing out sugar packets at Halloween would be as funny in practice as it sounded in conversation. “But Chris…

Food Waste or Fritattas? Holidays are often built around food. And there’s always some leftover. When I ask the waiter for a to-go box and say, “If I don’t eat it, our chickens will,” they’re happy to hear that nothing goes to waste. Our hens — Buttercup, Domenica, Mezza Luna…

Students who had survived the Valentine’s Day shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida could be seen a week later crying in the state house balcony. …

But It’s a Class War that We’re Losing. For Now. For the 40 years since 1980, wages for most working families have been stagnant. Yet profits and productivity still roughly doubled. I’m not a socialist, but that sounds like class war to me. On Christmas 244 years ago, Washington and…

Racism also masks efforts to undermine the white working class. The Confederacy — and the slavery that spawned it — was one big con job on the southern, white, working class. A con job funded by some of the ante-bellum one-per-centers, that continues today in a similar form. I’ve lived…

And Repudiate Trump at the Same Time? Two of our last three presidents lost the popular vote, but the Electoral College put them in the White House anyway. That can’t happen in any other democracy. Two of our last three presidents lost the popular vote, but the Electoral College (EC)…