There’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. -Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” Until and unless you d... Read more
“Stranded is a bit of an exaggeration, to be honest with you,” Mr. Shumlin told the correspondent. Word of the exchange got to residents of Rochester, and some were miffed. . . Every way to... Read more
Allow me to get first response stuff out of the way. The dangerous game we know we are all in — every expanding returns on investments for a few and continuously maximizing profits to... Read more
Unstoppable and The Lincoln Lawyer “How do you get a “Headstart” program going that isn’t about implanting early entrepreneurial ambitions in toddlers but one that ge... Read more
The Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1948 and the single most destructive piece of legislation to the union movement, was a product of anti-communist hysteria. When it was passed, about half of a... Read more
Here are some stories I’ve heard:The truth is that the rich get richer because they’re smarter and bolder than the rest of us. But do you want to know the truth? It’s luck not smarts because... Read more
[A]n incarnate will to power … will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant – not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is wi... Read more
Poll results right now regarding collective bargaining for public employees are a whole lot clearer than usual: 60 percent are behind the protesters. But those results have already been flat... Read more
Who remembers Michael Milken or Ivan Boesky? The Enron and Worldcom and Arthur Anderson rapacity and financial conjurations, their bunco confidence games followed by the Ponzi bamboozlement... Read more
“For decades, Egypt’s authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak, played a clever game with his political opponents. He tolerated a tiny and toothless opposition of liberal intellectuals whose v... Read more
He and former Polish political prisoners voiced “horror and disgust” at President Trump’s scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week, saying it reminded them of encounters with bullying Communist-era officials. [...]
Ms. McMahon, who has little experience in private or public schools, will take over a department that President Trump has already begun to dismantle. [...]
The rebuke of President Trump’s tariff plans came just days before sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico were expected to go into effect. [...]
The Saudi-led cartel said its members would start gradually pumping more oil in April. [...]
Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with “The Joe Rogan Experience” offered a window into his worldview that was by turns crude and contradictory. [...]
The S&P 500 fell 1.8 percent on Monday after President Trump doubled down on plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday. [...]
