| Sep 20, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThe only two constants in life are death and taxes. Congress has decided to combine the two by sending tens of millions of tax dollars, in lieu of flowers, to underwrite non-profit institutions named after recently deceased lawmakers, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and...
| Sep 13, 2010 | Food / FarmingSometimes I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or go bowling. This is one of those times. America is now in a Great Jobs Depression that has already lasted 10 years and continues to rage unabated across the land, devastating the middle class. Yet it took two...
| Sep 6, 2010 | Economy / BusinessIt’s been two years since the Lehman Brothers collapse set off a global financial meltdown. The government bailed out big Wall Street banks and they’re now making bumper earnings. Major corporations are sitting on $8 trillion in cash reserves, the biggest...
| Aug 30, 2010 | Environment / HealthIf the recent record-breaking temperatures and freak thunderstorms in Washington were nature’s way of telling Congress that climate change is real, it’s here, and it’s time to do something about it–it didn’t work. Just before lawmakers...
| Aug 16, 2010 | Peace / SecurityA “false positive” diagnosis causes relief when it means earlier signs of cancer were wrong. In Colombia, a “falso positivo” deepens grief, for it means the suspicion that a murdered youth belonged to the guerrilla forces was a mistake....
