| Dec 6, 2010 | Economy / BusinessHow would you spend $700 billion? Congress has to decide this month. One simple solution would be for Congress to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for households with incomes over $250,000 for another decade. That would use up all $700 billion. I feel bad for Congress....
| | Rights / DemocracyWith all the talk about firing “underperforming” teachers, closing the achievement gap, and adopting “common core standards” for students, too many experts are missing a basic source of America’s education woes: the inherently unequal and...
| | Environment / HealthWith the holidays upon us again, I think back with both pleasure and distress to the feast I was welcomed to a few seasons ago at the top of Alaska. The effects of climate change in polar regions are now starkly obvious–and they have consequences. Not so long...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe United States has made great strides to change the sickening attitudes and legal obstacles that for decades held women in the grip of physical and sexual violence, far too often with little recourse, while their abusers went unpunished. But as a nation, we can go...
| | Rights / DemocracyI have a confession to make. I hope it won’t make you think ill of me. I have never smoked marijuana, not even a puff. Not ever. Not that I didn’t have my chances. Back in 1970 I was covering the Wadena Rock Festival in Iowa (sort of Woodstock lite) when a...
