| Mar 19, 2012 | Economy / BusinessA saying attributed to Henry Ford rings all too true nowadays: “What’s good for the businessman is bad for business.” The meaning is fairly straightforward. Cutting jobs, wages, and benefits may be “good” for each corporation’s...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen they decided to honor Dwight Eisenhower with a memorial in Washington, they did it up right. They hired perhaps our most famous architect, Frank Gehry, to design it. They picked out a place in the middle of the National Mall to put it. They bankrolled it at a...
| | Peace / SecurityDuring a recent city council meeting, the mayor of Keene, New Hampshire leaned over to a council member and whispered excitedly: “We’re going to have our own tank.” Yes, the tank (or, more specifically, the “armored personnel vehicle”) is...
| | Environment / HealthPatients pay me Well indeed; Getting tests That they don’t need. In most countries, health care is aimed at curing the sick. Here, not so much. In the United States, health care is a profit center, one of our nation’s few growth industries. Young people...
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