Travel with National Geographic Partners: See the World and Burn a Lot of...
One would expect that an organization dedicated to preserving the planet would not sponsor travel excursions that represent a form of excessively excessive consumption. A brochure from National...
View ArticleWe Need a New Deal for Housing
When I came of age in Flint, Michigan, homeownership was a crucial part of the American dream. Often one income was sufficient to buy into this dream — union GM jobs paid enough to buy a home and to...
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The Other Gorgon: Surrealism & Photography, c. 1929
Photography has always confounded any real attempt we have made to come to grips with its powers. Since it first appeared around 1826, the electromagnetic image has lost nothing of its miraculous...
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As Democracy Crumbles, Silence Speaks Volumes
Hyper-Partisanship and the Failure to Uphold Free Speech Principles In late 2019, the popular Joe Rogan podcast featured author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi. In addition to...
View ArticleThanks to Trump, Iran has the Upper Hand
The assassination of General Soleimani is proving to be a resounding success for Iran. It accomplished what the ayatollah could not: common ground between Iran and Iraq, Iraq’s invitation to the US...
View ArticleNisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy
A new Netflix TV series deals with the late Argentina’s Prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death, still undecided if it was a suicide or a murder case. The series contains several secret and unknown files,...
View ArticleWilderness for Ranchers: the Bad Owyhee Wilderness Bill
Senator Wyden and Senator Merkley have introduced the ‘‘Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act’’ (MCEOA). The senators can be commended for taking on such a controversial issue and trying to...
View ArticleFull Impeachments for Trump will Shake Senate Republicans from Kangaroo Court
Many Americans have forecasted that the outlaw Donald Trump will commit even more illegal acts to increasing his support in the 2020 presidential year. Remember Wag the Dog, a film about using a...
View ArticleInnocent Iranian-Americans Pose No Threat
Early in the morning on January 2, U.S. drone strikes decimated a two-car convoy near Baghdad’s International Airport in Iraq. Killed in the targeted attack was General Qassem Soleimani, the commander...
View ArticleWar With Iran is at Stake–and Democrats’ High Jump Over Low Standards Aren’t...
The huge crisis with Iran is more dangerous because so many Democrats have been talking out of both sides of their congressional mouths. An example is the recent rhetoric from Sen. Chris Murphy. “The...
View ArticleThe Embalming of Syria
The Syrian civil war, which has been raging since 2011, is one of the worst tragedies of the early twenty-first century. Approximately half a million people have died, about six million people have...
View ArticleThe Price of Empire
I don’t know how much longer we can keep fooling ourselves; we’ve already been at it for so long. It doesn’t matter what Iran does. It doesn’t matter what Iraq does. It doesn’t matter what any of these...
View ArticleRighteous Capitalism vs. Cooperative Values
New Belgium Brewery sold to Japanese Multinational Employee Stock Option Plans Beer enthusiasts are bemoaning the sale of the fourth largest US craft brewery, New Belgium Brewery based in Ft. Collins,...
View ArticleThe Crushing Burden of Japan’s Debt and Other Scare Stories for Small Children
Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek had a column in the NYT talking about how economists seem to be worried about the economy, in spite of low unemployment and continued growth. The economists cited had...
View ArticleMadam Speaker: Don’t Budge Until Trump is Dead Meat
How to Finesse a Rogue Majority Leader Madam Speaker, keep in mind the 293 days Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, in order to get what he wanted: an archconservative...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Our Reps Will Wait Their Turn To See The Doctor They will not be dressed to star in music videos. Prior experience at Hooters or Work Out World will not be sufficient for hiring. They will not call the...
View ArticleWill We Always be This Way?
“The people do not want war!” These were the words that did it, that knocked the composure out of me. I was standing at what felt like the heart of Chicago on a January afternoon, corner of Wabash and...
View ArticleThe Importance of Hating All Kinds of Billionaires
“Some people say, well, taxes are regressive. But in this case, yes they are. That’s the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don’t have a lot of money. And so, higher taxes...
View ArticleThe Global War of Error
Yes, our infrastructure stinks, our schools are failing, this country’s a nightmare of inequality,and there’s a self-promoting madman in the White House, so isn’t it time to take pride in the rare...
View ArticleHegemony: the Supreme Law of the Planet
In 1970, Professor Thomas Franck, with whom I studied international law at New York University School of Law, posed a question Who Killed Article 2(4)? As a prominent part of the U.N. Charter, Article...
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