Analysis
Etch A Sketch and the Wal-Mart phenomenon
December 12, 2003Opinion Perhaps the most successful, imaginative toy of all time has been Etch A Sketch. It thrilled our youngsters – and their parents and other adults – some 40 years ago and it still does today....
Read moreOppose the Federal Marriage Amendment
December 12, 2003Opinion Republicans don’t have solutions for the unemployment crisis (how often can you spend $180 billion on an illegal war to make the economy seem like its growing?). They have no handle on the Iraq quagmire,...
Read moreWhats a CEO worth?
December 12, 2003Opinion I’ve had the opportunity, just lately, to offer some insight to a couple of very young people entering the work force of the real world for the first time. Although they are pursuing two very...
Read moreMentally ill abandoned by the system
December 5, 2003Opinion Fifty years ago half a million of us lived in public mental health hospitals, some voluntary but many against their will. How is it that today, by some estimates, only approximately 80,000 of us are...
Read moreA class approach to pensions
December 5, 2003Opinion One of the proudest achievements of the U.S. labor movement, the retired worker’s monthly pension check, is in deepening trouble. Union-negotiated defined-benefit plans supposedly provide a monthly pension check for life, insured by a federal...
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