Consequences Quote by Annie Lowrey

The bunker business is just one instantiation, the grandest instantiation, of what you might think of as conspiracy capitalism.

— Annie Lowrey

It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as…

— Annie Lowrey

Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults would struggle…

— Annie Lowrey

So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed…

— Annie Lowrey

As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails, drones, and…

— Annie Lowrey

Conspiracy theories themselves are big business, of course, selling books, videos, conferences, and all kinds of merch. Then there is the economy that promotes…

— Annie Lowrey

The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable,…

— Annie Lowrey

Wolves are afraid of humans, whereas dogs are not. Wolves hunt game, whereas dogs scavenge human leftovers or eat what their human companions put…

— Annie Lowrey

The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent-contractor jobs are the new normal.

— Annie Lowrey

For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly…

— Annie Lowrey

The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that comes with…

— Annie Lowrey

The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that…

— Annie Lowrey