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The Lineup: Week of May 30-June 5, 2011
William A. Collins sums up the nation’s health care woes and Martha Burk calls for corporate boardrooms to stop doubling as old boys’ clubhouses.
A Decade of Magical Tax-Cut Thinking
Republican leaders in Congress have a one-point program for whatever ails the nation: cut taxes for millionaires and large corporations.
Mobile Mugging
A recent T-Mobile commercial depicts a cellphone customer being harassed by two thugs in business suits, his pockets emptied, his wallet turned inside out, and every last penny shaken out of him. The gist: He’s being mugged by T-Mobile’s competitors, which all charge higher prices for less service than T-Mobile.
A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
Barack Obama’s trade policy, as embodied by the pending U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, sadly resembles that of George W. Bush. It promotes export growth and investment at the expense of local economies and resilient food systems. This is unfortunate, not only because it fails to deliver the “21st-century” trade agenda President Obama’s promised on the campaign trail, but also because it ignores some of the key lessons from NAFTA and the 2008 global food price crisis.
Stop Investing in Sexism
My entire working life, roughly 50 years, I’ve been hearing the same old excuses for women not advancing in corporate America. Two are dominant: “we can’t find qualified women,” and “just wait until the pipeline gets filled and things will automatically get better.”
Israel’s Third-Rail Borders
Writing about the Palestinians and Israelis is an exercise without profit. There’s no way to try to take a reasonable stand on the issues involved and escape vilification.
Academic Freedom for Sale–Cheap
Billionaires are different from you and me for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do.
Big Bad Free Trade Accord
Chugging Down the Wrong Track
Most nations use health care to maximize the well being of their citizens. A few use it to maximize corporate profit. The United States is among the latter.
The Lineup: Week of May 23-29, 2011
Kate Colarulli calls for an end to oil and gas tax breaks and Carl Gibson explains why luring corporate profits stashed overseas back to America with a tax holiday would actually push us “further into debt.”
