This is part 1 of a series that I am publicly working through.  The previous post introduces the why and how this exploration began and a general outline of where it looks to be going. 1. The 1946 Employment Act To start with, the Census Bureau falls under the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) and [...]

Throughout the last year and a half, like many of us, I’ve been casually following some progressive financial blogs waiting for an economic historian to look at this financial crisis and guide me towards a critical understanding of why we’re in the crisis that we are, and how we might come out of it. Mostly, [...]

Sunday morning in Hawaii, and it’s raining. Responding to J. Kehaulani’s request to post a summary remark on Facebook about the *book* I’m writing, I spent a good hour pulling together a summary draft of what will become a public presentation on the research that I’ve been working on, in part as a fulfillment of [...]

This is my response to Kuhio Vogeler’s recent posting “Two Questions that Lead to Action,” in which he lays out a frame into which we can begin to build a strategy to end occupation in Hawaii. Although there are conflicting viewpoints as to which strategy may be more effective, we seem to be at a [...]