For most of the last century, American industry's successes were hallmarked by a commonly held belief among CEOs that they had equal responsibility to shareholders, employees, customers, communities and the nation -- and the nation as a whole was the beneficiary. But in the late '80s, with the advent of 'trickle down economics' and wildly excessive executive compensation, that sense of responsibility began to be noticeably and widely lost.
Wasting his opportunity to tell the truth, Karl Rove offers absolutely nothing new in his book, and his selective use of facts and quotes is a transparent effort to continue his long campaign to confuse people.
In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a fresh energy in Sub-Saharan Africa -- and a broad consensus on the road ahead. There is a strong sense that Africa's destiny will be driven by Africans, not by others.
Now we've got a real mess on our hands. If the CFPA is housed in the Fed, but the Fed doesn't regulate most American banks, how will American consumers get the protection they need?
Undercover Boss is the kind of popular entertainment that can start out as one thing but morph into something that turns a spotlight on just how out of touch America's corporate chiefs are.
Whitman hates the comparison with Schwarzenegger, even though obvious, as both she and Schwarzenegger are Republicans, both are super-rich, and neither had any experience in elected office before running.
These two men will never stop feeding the Beast: not now, not ever! Welcome to Washington, DC. Everyone's right and nobody's sorry, that's the start and the end of the story.
The last time we abandoned health reform, the failure to deliver ushered in a devastating era of hard-right dominance in Washington. We had to fight for 16 years just to get back to this point.
More than 70 years ago the Consumers Union called for affordable, reliable health care for all Americans. Now, after decades of failed proposals, broken promises, and political rancor, reform is in reach.
Thanks to my extensive contacts in the publishing and political sabotage industries, I was able to recover the following list of Karl Rove's alternate working titles for his new semi-literary gem.
Student lending reform could have passed the Senate long ago, but because it had to wait on health care, the lobbyists have had plenty of time to chip away at the Senate. But colleges across the country can't wait another year for relief.
Technology will never replace the difficult, usually unglamorous work required to produce lasting social change. But it's clear that online and mobile tools can dramatically expand the power of grassroots organizers.
Big banks have a funding advantage -- the implicit government guarantee makes it easier for them to raise capital and cheaper for them to borrow money. They will always only become larger.
Pius is being falsely maligned by his critics as a pious fraud and moral coward who disgraced a great world religion, then why doesn't the Vatican fix the error by simply opening their archives?
Sarah Palin's recent statement that, presumably during her childhood, she and her family used to cross the border to take advantage of Canada's health care system is not so much a gaffe as an interesting insight into a politician.
What remains of a writer's life? What is worth preserving? At the very end or, even before that, at mid-life, when the end looms into view, what should be kept for the record?
Having inflicted enormous damage on tens of millions of families who have lost their jobs, their homes and/or their life's savings, it would be nice if Rubin could have the decency to fade from the public scene.
The team of Martin and Baldwin (or Baldwin and Martin) ran the show with real authority, while brilliantly playing morons in authority, giving a demonstration in the lost art of emceeing.
What bugged me most about the awards season is how so many pundits tried to turn James Cameron into the big male bully and Bigelow into some helpless female victim of his oppression.
A UN study has found that the cost of environmental damage by the 3,000 largest publicly held corporations in the world is $2.2 trillion, more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable.
"We doubled the number of Best Picture nominees this year, and look what that did for our ratings," said a spokesman for the Academy. "Doubling the number of dead people should blow the roof off this thing."
This Thursday, the noted physicist Lisa Randall, the composer Hector Parra and myself are going to try and present the Randall/Sundrum model, or five-dimensional warped geometry, as an opera.
