| Aug 14, 2013 | Economy / BusinessAmazon’s bezillionaire CEO is buying The Washington Post, America’s second-most prestigious daily newspaper. Jeff Bezos only had to pay $250 million, less than 1 percent of his $28 billion personal fortune. Has plutocracy finally overwhelmed our press?...
| Aug 7, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThere I was, sitting at my desk and looking out of the window — you know, writing — when my wife came in and plopped down a newspaper article in front of me. “Read that,” she said with a cruel twinkle in her eye. It was an article on Detroit by George...
| Jul 3, 2013 | Economy / BusinessTen generations have come and gone since 1776. Yet the Founders still fascinate us. Books about Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington still regularly dot our best-seller lists. What so attracts us to these men of means who put their security and...
| Dec 19, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyMichigan is no longer a state. It is now “Michiganistan,” an autocratic czardom in the hands of Emperor Rick Snyder. Formerly the Republican governor, Snyder has been enthroned by the GOP’s lame-duck, legislative supermajority to rule with an iron...
| Dec 18, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAbout half of the nation’s states are now enforcing corporate servitude measures like the “right-to-work” bill that Michigan’s lame-duck legislature and conservative governor just rushed into law. These misleadingly named laws make it harder,...
