It’s been three years since the pandemic turned the economy upside down. So why are prices still so high?

To answer that question, there may be no better product than the humble car tire. 2/ A tire is something universal that we depend on to live in much of America. But unlike food and gas, it’s not something we typically budget for. As a result, scores of people have turned to GoFundMe to raise money for tires.

A brief history of "shithole countries": The Germans, or “Palatine boors,” who settled in Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania in the 18th century (1) The Irish in the 1830s-40s who saw their churches burned & attacked by anti-Catholic mobs (2)