| | Economy / BusinessI’m guessing that being rich is a comfortable feeling — no money worries, you’re set for life! But is it possible that being too rich can be too much, even discombobulating? Imagine being Mark Zuckerberg, whose social media monopoly, Facebook, put another $27.3...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWith Greta Gerwig’s new take on Luisa May Alcott’s classic 19th century novel, Little Women, in theaters, I decided to reread the book. The novel communicates Alcott’s beliefs about proper morality and gender roles through stories of a family of four...
| Jan 21, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTen years ago, in January 2010, the Supreme Court released its disastrous Citizens United decision. The court, either through remarkable naivety or sheer malevolence, essentially married the terrible idea that “money is speech” to the terrible idea that “corporations...
| Jan 15, 2020 | Economy / BusinessAs Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues: “Them that’s got is them that gets/And I ain’t got nothin’ yet.” While the workaday majority of Americans continue to be mired in our low-wage economy, the precious few at the tippy-top soared out of sight in 2019....
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA Google search for “paying school lunch debt” reveals a long list of recent news stories about good Samaritans paying off the school lunch debt of children whose families cannot afford it. A Fredonia, New York man paid off $2,000 in school lunch debt in...
