Tag: United States
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Learning to Live in the World as It Is
Instead of simply exhorting the rest of the world to get on board with the American way of space cooling, we really should be looking to Europe and other regions for clues to adapting our habits to the world that we are in, instead of remaining stubbornly attached to the artificial world that we created,…
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Two Words: General Strike
In November of 1948, workers in the British and American-occupied sectors of west Germany (then known as the Bi-Zone Economic Area, Bizonia for short) staged the largest single-day strike in the nation’s history. More than nine million workers, out of a total workforce of 11.7 million, stayed home from work, shutting down mines, factories, mills,…
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Things to Consider if You Want to Leave the U.S.
Kaila’s post over at Home Abroad reminded me of the February report from the Brookings Institution that revaled a record number of American citizens moved overseas in 2025. It marks the first time since the Great Depression that more people left the United States than moved in.
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How American Healthcare Got Here, part 2
We have managed care, ‘Obamacare,’ and Medicare, but most Americans still lack affordable care
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How American Healthcare Got Here, Part I
Why the United States is the only developed nation without universal healthcare “So, if you can’t afford to pay for your medicine, you just die?” That was the question posed by a fellow Redditor in a forum discussing the U.S. health system. The person who posted was from a European country with socialized medicine and…
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Not Working for the Man
We support organized labor. My husband is a member of the Ver.di union. And one of the main reasons we decided to move our family to Germany and the European Union was so our kids would start their working lives with more rights and protections than we had in the United States. So, while it…
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Freedom, Texas style
A blogger that I follow writes about her life as an immigrant and rural homesteader in a small South American country. I love to read her updates about her life on her small farm, with chickens, goats, a huge garden. I live through her vicariously from my apartment in central Berlin, where I must content…
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