For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of... Read more...
Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of... Read more...
As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:... Read more...
Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes. Two factors are at... Read more...
In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl... Read more...
This holiday season got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of... Read more...
Here’s a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep. First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing... Read more...
In a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that... Read more...
What does your toothbrush, a fish dinner, and your running shoes have in common? Plastic. We now live on Planet... Read more...
As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the... Read more...
Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact... Read more...
America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of... Read more...
Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big... Read more...
At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s... Read more...
America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s... Read more...
If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about... Read more...
Tick-tick-tick… each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil... Read more...
Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because… well,... Read more...
Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are... Read more...
When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way... Read more...
Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the... Read more...
We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary... Read more...
The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t... Read more...
An old political truism notes that, “Where there’s a will, there are 1,000 won’ts.” And what a hurricane of won’ts... Read more...
It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people... Read more...