| Jun 22, 2016 | Economy / BusinessImagine painstakingly making up your way up the cables of Yosemite National Park’s famous Half Dome peak — only to see swooshes and slogans encouraging you to “Just Do It.” “Welcome to Half Dome,” a gleaming banner greets you,...
| Jun 15, 2016 | Economy / BusinessSlavery has been abolished in the United States since 1865, when the 13th Amendment was passed in the ashes of the Civil War. Well, almost abolished. Actually, the amendment included a caveat: “except as punishment for a crime.” Since then, prison and...
| | Economy / BusinessThis year, despite the unnerving presidential freak show the Republicans are putting on, Hillary Clinton is the one who recently stunned me. Attempting to convince wary working class families that she’ll lift up the poor, shore up the middle class, and stand...
| Jun 8, 2016 | Economy / BusinessIt’s no secret that House Republicans don’t like the Internal Revenue Service. They’ve once again proposed cutting the agency’s already beleaguered funding, and they recently held a hearing to impeach its commissioner, John Koskinen. Koskinen’s alleged...
| | Economy / BusinessNo doubt you’ll be thrilled to learn that we now live and work in a “gig economy.” That’s the latest corporate buzz-phrase from Silicon Valley. CEOs there are hailing a Brave New Workplace in which we lucky worker bees no longer have to be...
| Jun 1, 2016 | Economy / BusinessWhen the 2008 financial crash slammed the New York City construction industry, Maribel Touré’s husband lost his job as an architect. On top of that, Maribel suffered a serious accident. But what really plunged the family into financial trouble was sending their...
