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Feeding Obesity
Attention foodies: There’s a new craze in Cuisine World, and it’s going 180 degrees in the opposite direction from the much-publicized healthy-eating movement.
Passing the Top Hat
The State of the Military-Industrial Complex Is Strong
What can you do with a bunch of used generals? If you keep them active, they need new assignments. These can be expensive. But if you let them retire with fat pensions, they’ll go to work for arms producers, lobbying for more weapons and more wars. Either way citizens pay through the nose.
The Lineup: Week of May 14-20, 2012
Booth Gunter discusses the grim conditions young inmates endured at a for-profit prison in Mississippi.
No Country for Rich Men
Back in 1863, a short story took the American reading public by storm. Edward Everett Hale’s The Man without a Country told the tale of a poor treasonous soul sentenced to spend the rest of his life endlessly sailing the seven seas, in perpetual exile, as a prisoner aboard Navy warships.
Operation Lip Service
The popular uprising in Bahrain shows no signs of going away.
Bank of America’s Healthier Roots
The father of Bank of America wouldn’t recognize it today. The “built-to-last” institution he founded has turned into a “built-to-loot” operation obsessed with short-term gains.
Amadeo P. Giannini built Bank of America into the first nationwide financial institution. The Italian American’s success hinged on his determination to challenge the notion that banks should benefit society’s wealthiest members.
Meting out Injustice in Mississippi
Two years ago, Mike McIntosh suffered brain damage as well as stab wounds, a broken nose, and other injuries when he was beaten nearly to death during a melee at a prison in Mississippi. A dozen others were hospitalized.
Our Ruinous Game
The apparent suicide of Junior Seau, the former NFL superstar linebacker, has again raised the age-old question: “Is playing football dangerous, as in potentially lethal?”
Coddling the 10 Percent
Another way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers serve them freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies.
