| Feb 11, 2015 | Economy / BusinessBusiness schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots. By that I mean the original Greek word idiotes, which applied to people who care only about themselves and the prosperity of their immediate...
| Feb 10, 2015 | Economy / BusinessHow about this year’s Super Bowl, huh? You may know that the final score in this nail-biter was 28 points for the Patriots to 24 for the Seahawks. Let me add: minus 2 million for the city of Glendale. Two million dollars, that is. That’s the amount that Mayor...
| Feb 4, 2015 | Peace / SecurityHere’s a quiz: Your boss gives you a budget. You ignore it and ask for more money than anyone in your position has ever spent. How long would you expect to keep your job? That’s basically the scenario that played out with the Obama administration’s recent budget...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen I was growing up, my older Mexican-American relatives had an expression: “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.” It was my family’s way of making me careful about choosing my friends. Even then, I could see they were right. The smart kids...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen I worked as a community organizer in New Mexico, I once overheard several women talking about a 2012 executive action on immigration. Known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the order made young, undocumented adults eligible for work permits and...
