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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.”
The IMF’s Assault on Women
A grand jury has indicted Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former head of the world’s most powerful financial institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on seven counts, including attempted rape of a Manhattan hotel worker. Following his alleged attack on the Guinean immigrant as she tried to clean up his $3,000-per-night Manhattan hotel suite, the Frenchman’s history of treating women as expendable sex objects is just coming to light.
Big Oil’s Free Ride
Over Memorial Day weekend, tens of millions of Americans will take road trips, emptying their wallets at the pump.
Wanted: Real U.S. Leadership
The world is transfixed as the unprecedented events in the Middle East and North Africa unfold. And foreign policy aficionados are equally transfixed as the U.S. government maneuvers between its stated values and sometimes short-sighted security policies. With targeted airstrikes and lofty rhetoric supporting some, but not all, of the brave activists seeking respect for their rights, Washington’s relations and approach with the region are inconsistent and off the mark.
Tax Holiday Would Cheat American Taxpayers
What if your family’s finances were tight, and you had a water bill that you couldn’t afford to pay? What if you had a client who owed you enough to cover the water bill? Would you tell your family they would have to go without water, or would you tell your client to pay up?
Some Good News, at Last
There’s been a lot of bad news lately — wars, revolutions, earthquakes, floods, famines. It’s getting so you need a drink before you’re ready to face the evening news. Which is why when something cheerful happens, I take time to savor it. Like, for example, Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest.
A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption
President Barack Obama is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes unlimited amounts of secret corporate cash to pervert America’s elections.
