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Kris Broughton
Big Think Contributor, Resurgence Blog
Kris Broughton, a veteran of the financial services industry, combines searing opinions with emotionally engaging commentary to provide insightful, original criticism of today's social and political events. His work has been featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Reuters, the Post Tribune, Beacon News, and TV ONE Online.
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President Obama has fallen hook, line and sinker for the short-sided political view of our nation’s most efficient stimulus program.
I got a few messages on Twitter the other day about Keith Olbermann’s abrupt departure from his perch at MSNBC. But I’ve never been a fan of Olbermann’s style of […]
Gabrielle Giffords reminds me of Phineas Gage, a nineteenth century railroad worker who survived being pierced cleanly through the brain by a thirteen pound iron bar. In both cases, the victim's core brain functions remained relatively unscathed.
It’s pretty obvious the time the GOP spent this week debating a healthcare repeal bill that has absolutely no chance of becoming law instead of deliberating over more practical matters […]
It’s been a tough week in Georgia, with heavy snowfall last weekend that paralyzed the northern half of the state. Now businesses are playing catch up. The mail is being […]
I was pretty content looking at CPAN last night, watching the people milling around the University of Arizona’s arena after President Obama’s remarks during the memorial service for those killed […]
One of the great fallacies of our time is that of American reasonableness—a fantasy that obscures the violent and often contradictory actions of many of this country’s citizens and its government.