Today is Veteran's Day and I salute my family members, friends and colleagues who have served our country. I have always been inspired by them, from my grandfather who fought in the trenches of World War I, to my father who served in the South Pacific in the Navy, to...

The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's recent actions on two of the most important issues facing our country, health care reform and climate change, are a complete riddle to not only me, but to many of the chamber's own members and former supporters.

Or, then again, maybe they're not. Or maybe...

Newspapers are in trouble. Big, end-of-the-road death spiral big trouble. The Boston Globe was recently pulled off the market because its owners who shelled out $1.1 billion for the paper were a little upset at the $35 million offer plus assumption of some debt that they received.

This isn't pennies...

For quite some time, I have been negative on newspapers believing that they should be worried about the news part a touch more than the paper part.

Watching them implode as the world changes is like reading the stories about how television won't impact radio, or if there was...

One week ago today, Sigourney Weaver and Frances Beinecke went to Washington to show the ground-breaking movie, Acid Test: The Global Challenge Of Ocean Acidification. It's a great short film, well worth watching, with really incredibly scary conclusions about what will happen to the ocean, not in the distant future...

The US Chamber of Commerce is up to its eyeballs in disgruntled members and as a membership organization, perhaps it will consider the incredible amount of damage it has done to is reputation by aggressively resisting climate change initiatives and legislation.

After all, here are a few of the highlights...

Usually New York City is the kind of place where Saturday night is the night to paint the town (RED) but this week, Sunday night is the night, and Carnegie Hall is the place.

Because this Sunday, Gavin Friday, all-around Irish music star, is doing an incredibly special show a...

Sometimes it's hard to explain how the far-right and corporate lobbyists operate or how they view reality. It's much easier to understand their actions if you accept that first, they know the facts, but just choose, on the basis of business reasons, to completely ignore them and second, that they...

I was asked on the Mario Solis Marich Radio Show the other day about the climate change bill, and the opposition to it. As I told Mario, the strategy employed by the opponents of clean energy legislation is actually the same strategy that was employed by the tobacco industry,...

People wonder why traditional media sources are failing. And while there are lots of reasons, one of them is that, well, the product they are providing is, how does one say this, crap.

Declan McCullagh, who works at CBS Interactive, had some, let's just call it, credibility problems of epic...

For those of us that have been shocked for years that Glenn Beck has had a job, and that people actually listen to his rants, his targeting of Van Jones was not a shock, as Beck has taken aim at honorable targets for years, smearing and distorting and essentially being...

Last night, President Obama stood up and laid it on the line when it comes to health care reform. He made his case clearly and eloquently and called out the distortions of the right, and of those business interests who oppose health care reform. He told the truth, and showed...

I have a theory about reality shows that are everywhere these days. The people in them, when approached to do a show, don't get the basic fact that the producers think their lives are so insane that they will make good, if somewhat bizarre TV. The people in the show...

It's been a chaotic Congressional recess, what with birthers, doubters, and lobbyist-financed astroturf groups disrupting town hall events screaming about euthanasia, that it's easy to forget how 5 weeks ago there was a whole lot of screaming over the House's courageous passage of The American Clean Energy and Security...

In tough economic times, those of us that aren't Arnold Schwarzenegger with a Jacuzzi and cigar have to cut out a luxury or two. The commodity that just got axed from my list? Salt water.

I didn't know I had been buying salt water until my company, which does...

Last fall, I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post called "The Darwin Depression" which focused on how the end of cheap capital was going to force many many businesses in long-term losing legacy industries to shut down. Essentially, this is what has happened in Detroit and with the...

I am a realist and and optimist, which in 2009 America, often conflicts in somewhat bizarre ways. Last week, I took my kids to see Transformers II - I made the mistake of thinking that I could actually show up 15 minutes before the movie started, it was on about...

Our leaders have developed an achingly obvious flair for the dramatic when it comes to talking about democracy and what it takes to change the world. For example,

I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when...

Last night in Los Angeles, I had a chance to go to my first (RED)NIGHTS show at the Wiltern Theatre. This particular date of the new concert series from (RED) featured performances by hasidic hip-hop/reggae star Matisyahu and recent up-and-comer K'naan, who enthralled the audience with plenty of...

In the middle of all the conversations about credit card debt, credit card reform, credit card companies and credit troubles, we felt it was important to take a look at the credit card as, after all, this is the revolving credit card's 50th birthday. For many, a 50th birthday is...