Opinion
Making consumer protection into corporate protection
The giants of food manufacturing are very concerned about you. They fear you could come down with a terrible plague called “consumer confusion” — and these selfless corporate entities are going all out to save you from it...
No more Americans should die for Karzai
One person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from Afghanistan by 2014: Hamid Karzai...
Gouging consumers with high-flying fees
Why do airline executives hate their customers? Not so very long ago, airlines boasted about flying “the friendly skies,” but that happy slogan has now been perverted into flying “the abusive skies...
A people’s victory in Montana
Let’s hear it for American Tradition Partnership! It’s an organization that stands up for the politically dispossessed in our land. It goes to the highest courts to assert the fundamental rights of a minority that’s been denied its full voice in America’s political ...
A little less corporate political corruption
Come on, Obama, do it! Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes ...
My persons of the year
Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...
The dirty little secret of private equity profits
Executives in private equity firms — such as Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts — tend to be peacocks who think quite highly of themselves...