Add more seats around the public policy table, please
Journalists report on the world’s important issues primarily in two languages — those of politics and economics. When a budding college journalist asks me what she should minor in or take as a second...
View ArticleWhen loyalty speaks with only a meaningless whisper
Seven years ago I wrote about the attainment of loyalty. Now, with deepening sadness, I confront the loss of loyalty and its emotional costs. As I have aged, loyalty, at least in the world as I see...
View ArticleIf you’re young, vote for a younger Congress
“Don’t trust anyone over 30.” — Jack Weinberg, 1964 “I’m confident we’re going to win.” — Mitch McConnell, 76, Senate majority leader, during Kavanagh hearing “Do whatever you have to do, just win,...
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Journalists aren’t your enemy — they might be your last resort.
Imagine you’ve been wronged. Someone, or some faceless corporation or other spineless institution, has caused you physical, emotional, or financial injury. You want recompense. You want compensation....
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July 4, 2018: What, if anything, can stave off the ruination of the Republic?
In 2007, on this overblown, sadly commercialized holiday whose historical moment has been buried by beer, barbecue, patriotic bombast, and over-the-top, often taxpayer-paid fireworks, I wrote what 2011...
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Bagdikian was right: Don’t allow media to concentrate
Ben Bagdikian, one of the nation’s foremost media critics, died in 2016 at age 96. He left behind warnings about concentration in media ownership. We should have paid more attention. Ben Bagdikian...
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When is that chemical toxic? Ask the industry-guided EPA
If you’d like a reason to be cynical about whether government favors you or favors an industry, look no further than a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has decided to review 10...
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Why save coal instead of investing in wind?
Money moves toward enterprises where profit lies in waiting. But money runs as fast as possible from the tired and unprofitable. Wind turbines along I-80 in southern Wyoming. Consider the fortunes of...
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Mental illness should not become a blanket barrier to owning a firearm
I want to buy a gun. As a kid, I loved westerns — those with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, and John Wayne. They were heroes — good guys in white hats defeating bad guys in black hats. Those...
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Really? It was ‘Science Day’ in Congress?
How nice of the retiring Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the outgoing chair of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, to declare this past Monday “Science Day” in the House of Representatives....
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Remove words? Control discourse? That’s power.
Those who can control language have power over those who cannot. That has been the most corrosive power exercised by President Donald’s administration. This is especially true in matters relating to...
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A day to not be thankful …
Ah, Thanksgiving. The time to be thankful, as tradition and good manners tell me. So, I’ll be thankful. But for what? “Yeah. Like I’m gonna be thankful …” I’m thankful, surely, for the love,...
View ArticleThe corrupt American Congress: Extortionists? Or seduced by bribes? Now...
Now that the FBI has its gumshoes working on cleaning up college athletics, perhaps it could focus on examining corruption elsewhere — perhaps in the American Congress, as my S&R college Sam Smith...
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Gannett adopts the blue dot, emblematic of market-driven thinking, at its...
Oh, my. Look at the dot. It’s blue. It’s representative of “one unified network,” says the chief marketing officer of Gannett, owner of the USA Today Network. The blue dot — and accompanying...
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For the want of critical thinking, America has succumbed to tribalism
Antarctica is cold. I learned that in grade school. The record is 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit below zero set in 1983. Did you know the southernmost continent is also a desert? I know much of the history...
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When a company cuts jobs, it shouldn’t spin that reality with corporate bullshit
Time magazine’s first cover The owner of the grandparent of weekly news magazines, Time, has decided to shed 300 jobs through layoffs and buyouts to reduce its costs. A media corporation whacking jobs...
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Democrats need a lesson in humility. Consider what Mike Dukakis learned.
Donald won. Hillary lost. Now the Democrats face what The New York Times called “a widening breach in their party.” Perched ever farther on the left is Bernie Sanders, perhaps still smarting from being...
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Who really pays for cutting back rules limiting toxic emissions?
President Donald’s administrative minions, since day one, have been “reviewing” federal regulations they argue are so costly they curtail growth in American manufacturing, and worse, put American jobs...
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What he promises, and what his budget does, differ markedly on fixing waterways
President Donald stood this week on the bank of the Ohio River before 400 steelworkers, coal miners, and construction workers with barges of coal parked behind him. Amid departures from his text to...
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A daring young man … and a documentary dependent on his survival
Alex Honnold Alex Honnold is a remarkable young man. He may be the foremost rock climber in generations. That his most recent feat was done entirely ropeless — meaning he’d die if he fell — adds to his...
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