| Mar 2, 2016 | Economy / BusinessRemember An Inconvenient Truth? In addition to proving that people will pay good money to watch a movie costarring Al Gore and a PowerPoint presentation, that Oscar-winning documentary elevated climate change to an issue that everyone should fret about. In the decade...
| | Rights / DemocracyCivil liberties fans in the United States recently got an unlikely champion: the CEO of Apple. In a high-profile spat with the White House, Tim Cook has emerged as a leading spokesperson against the Obama administration’s efforts to weaken Americans’ constitutional...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe Washington, D.C. football team is scheduled to play in London later this year. But the controversy over its name has preceded it there. Two members of the British Parliament have asked the NFL to change the R*dskins’ team name — or “at the minimum, send a...
| | Environment / HealthIf you wonder why Congress critters keep ignoring what the people want them to do — while doing things that people don’t want them doing — take a peek at the unique PR campaign now being run by the pharmaceutical industry. The public is dismayed and disgusted by...
| Feb 24, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyTo use a phrase that doesn’t come readily to my lips: “Well I’ll be danged.” New Hampshire, that bastion of sensible conservatism and rectitude, gave us not one unelectable candidate, but two — Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Trumpmentum has only edged up since...
