Most intolerable is the steady drip-drip-drip of power it drains from America's democratic ideals and commitment to the Common Good. I can't say that Abbott and DeSantis are the worst that the GOP will try to put in the White House in 2024, but either one is a signpost of an increasingly assertive American fascism. Read more...
Although there are obvious exceptions to the rule, decades of behavioral studies, recurring surveys, in-depth conversations, cultural histories, real-life experiences, and every other kind of group observation have by and large produced the same finding: The great majority of people are guided in their daily actions and relations by deep values of fairness and sharing. Read more...
BEZOS’ COLD, MICROMANAGED, time-motion approach to the workplace is a direct descendant (and extreme extension) of a theory of “scientific management”... Read more...
LEGEND HAS ITÂ that Amazon is a classic story of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. In 1994, a bright,... Read more...
Rube Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of the last century, was famous for drawings of what he called “inventions” –complicated... Read more...
To see how easy it is for millions of innocent citizens to get caught up in NSA’s vast electronic web,... Read more...
If you’ve never seen a pack of pompous state legislators fall into a panic, you’ve missed a scene of... Read more...
for nearly 13 years now, and while we offer a lot of information in our four pages, we often hear... Read more...
FOX TV YAKKERÂ Bill O’Reilly was a sad old man on election night. “The white establishment is now the minority,” he... Read more...
The earth’s core, consisting largely of iron, helps balance our spinning planet. On the other hand, the core of too many... Read more...
The fanciful notion that a corporation is a “person” and is thus imbued with fundamental constitutional rights stems from–get this–a mistake.... Read more...
At his 2005 hearing to be confirmed as chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts had to convince some skeptical... Read more...
WHERE IS CONGRESS? It’s way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being... Read more...
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT GEORGE W missed his true calling. I think he has long harbored a secret desire... Read more...
In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the real threat to American freedom was not from an outside assault, but... Read more...
A fellow from a town just outside of Austin wrote a four-sentence letter to the editor of our local... Read more...
The greater villains are loose in our world today, literally thirsting to take things that are yours and mine—and this... Read more...
Whenever you hear that George W. Bush, Tom Daschle, or any of the other top politicos in Washington has announced... Read more...
When he was a U.S. senator many years ago, Oklahoma’s Bob Kerr would occasionally express amazement at some bit of... Read more...