| Dec 27, 2010 | Rights / DemocracySince NPR terminated its contract with political analyst Juan Williams, it has been open hunting season on the broadcasting network in Washington, with a handful of lawmakers and political pundits launching an all-out assault to take down public media. This...
| | Peace / SecurityHysteria and anger over WikiLeaks have led to calls in Congress to widen the scope of espionage law violations. Essentially, this serves as a warning shot to future whistleblowers. But the experiences of other truth-tellers show why this is a mistake. Information is...
| | Rights / DemocracyTime Magazine has its Man of the Year Award; I have mine. There was a bumper crop of candidates this year, a year marked by one bizarre turn of events after another. Who would have imagined, for example, that President Barack Obama, having gotten a commitment from oil...
| | Economy / BusinessDo you love your megabank? I’m talking about your local branch of CitiChaseWellsMorganofAmerica–or some similar financial conglomeration. As you might have learned from experience, they have thousands of bankers who specialize in finding innovative new...
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