Opinion
‘We the People,’ not ‘We the Corporations’
In response to the Supreme Court’s freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political “personhood” on corporations, I got an email from a guy named Larry, screaming that “big money has plucked our eagle...
Will you support Carl Icahn’s charity?
Wall Street buccaneer Carl Icahn has pocketed billions on deals, but he says he’s now passionate about helping others.
In particular, the corporate-takeover specialist is...
How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government?
Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.”
So...
PR soap can’t scrub off banker greed
Greenwashing” is the use of shameless PR campaigns by notorious polluters to portray their corporations as benign Bambi-loving protectors of nature. But now comes “Greedwashing...
A tomato tale that’s hard to stomach
"I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times...
Sharing the economy
About one in three American workers are temps, according to a recent report from the Freelancers Union and a temp agency called ElanceoDesk Inc. That’s 53 million people (or 34 percent of the workforce). That’s sort of an update of a comprehensive U.S. Government ...
A non-corporate, non-fat cat presidential campaign
Republican politicos say that taking unlimited sums of campaign cash from corporations and billionaires is the American way, claiming that money is “free” speech. Democrats disagree, but say they can’t unilaterally disarm, so they join the ever-escalating arms race ...
The eagle has landed — with extreme prejudice
Wind turbines have killed at least 67 eagles in the last five years, and probably a lot more, according to a report issued last September by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...
