| Jan 21, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyI recently addressed a rather odd topic for an audience of political progressives: “Who was your sports hero growing up?” Of course, sports today is very political — from billionaire team owners demanding that taxpayers build sports palaces for them, to...
| Jan 20, 2015 | Food / FarmingArmed with hefty grants from the Pentagon, squads of food technologists are on a mission to supplant nature with a great leap forward into the Brave New World of synthetic foodstuffs. Not satisfied merely to tinker with the genetic makeup of nature’s products,...
| Jan 14, 2015 | Environment / HealthI can only imagine the fear that must grip a parent when his or her child suffers an asthma attack. And I can scarcely fathom how much time and energy they spend doing everything they can to avoid triggers for these potentially deadly attacks. A major asthma trigger...
| | Rights / DemocracyUntil recent years, marijuana prohibitionists have been able to intimidate most reform-minded politicians by simply threatening to brand them as “soft on drugs.” But finally, thanks to determined activists and broad support from the general public,...
| Jan 13, 2015 | Economy / BusinessOne difference between top executives and worker bees is that those at the top can lower the pay of those down below while simultaneously raising their own. If you wonder what’s causing America’s rapidly widening income gap, there it is. Technically, CEOs...
