| Jul 4, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyDavid Koch, the right-wing multibillionaire, likes to pose as a class act. He’s thrown around several million bucks, for example, to get a wing of Manhattan’s Lincoln Center named for him and to buy a seat on the board of WGBH, Boston’s prestigious...
| May 30, 2011 | Economy / BusinessBillionaires are different from you and me for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do. A sleek car costing $100,000? Why that’s just an impulse purchase. A few million bucks for a Matisse original? Go ahead —...
| | Environment / HealthHealth insurers, Mighty slick; Turn me down, When I get sick 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. Our pharmaceutical firms and health insurers are...
| Apr 25, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIn American politics, the past not only sticks with us, but it often provides the best definition of what’s going on in the politics of the present, so it can be useful to revisit some powerful words from our history. Today’s media and political powers,...
| Oct 18, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIf life were an old-fashioned movie serial we’d be at the scene where Barack Obama is tied to railroad tracks while an oncoming train sounds in the distance. And if it were a movie, he’d escape. I’m not sure how, but at the last moment he’d...
