To a hungry polar bear losing its natural habitat, humans are just meat.
January/February 2015
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2015, Magazine
Why a Second Progressive Era Is Emerging- and How Not to Blow It
America is in the midst of a crisis that needs no introduction. Ideological warfare and policy paralysis in Washington. Declining economic well-being among the mass of Americans combined with expanding wealth at the top and an economy too weak and rigged to change the dynamic. A profound need, and public hunger, for solutions from government […]
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2015, Magazine
Ten Secret Truths About Government Incompetence
What you can learn from the management mistakes of Obama and Bush.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2015, Magazine
Why I Quit the Congressional Research Service
How Congress’s dysfunction has degraded its own in-house think tank.
Posted inJanuary/February 2015, Law and Justice, Magazine
Let Us Now Praise Corporate Persons
Citizens United was a bad decision; but the cry of “Corporations are not people!” isn’t helping fix the problem—in fact, it’s making it worse.
Posted inJanuary/February 2015, Law and Justice, Magazine
Corporate Law’s Original Sin
The public be damned,” railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt snorted at a reporter in 1882. The impertinent scribe had asked whether Vanderbilt ran his railroads with an eye toward public benefit. At the time, Vanderbilt was among the most powerful men in American business—and by his own estimation the richest man in the world. His […]
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2015, Magazine
Meat Puppets
How Washington bought into the anti-saturated-fat agenda.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2015, Magazine
Is a Grand Strategy for America Even Possible?
Three of our finest flag officers attempt to offer unifying visions for the United States, but run aground on the same political polarization that flummoxes everything else.
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2015, Magazine
A Thief, a Dirty Politician, and a Suicide Bomber Walk Into a Bar …
Yes, terrorists conspire with criminal networks and corrupt officials. But that doesn’t mean cracking down on crime and corruption will stop terrorism.
Posted inJanuary/February 2015, Magazine, Politics
Flipping Their Wigs
The framers would be shocked at how far conservative jurists have narrowed the definition of what constitutes political corruption.
