A code of ethics defines behaviors. Many professions have such codes. For physicians, for example, the code of medical ethics of the American Medical Association prescribes how they should interact with patients. […]
A free press won’t amount to squat as long as it has audiences who hear only what they want to hear, read only what their Facebook-sculpted algorithms tell them to read, and […]
In early April 1970, I walked into the newsroom of my hometown newspaper and asked the editor if he knew anyone at the state department of natural resources. I’d just received my […]
The grades are in. The nation’s infrastructure is close to failing. The 2017 report card of the American Society of Civil Engineers, posted today, gives the infrastructure on which America depends for […]
I hope he says it soon.
In the absence of rules and sheriffs, bandits will multiply. The end game of the heavily mediated engine driving American political strife boils down to these questions: What is the appropriate size […]
This is according to Politico, but its hardly the only source: President Donald Trump and his team are still fuming over evidence of a relatively small crowd for his inauguration, with his […]
The Trump transition team has yet to name all its executive branch officials, moving to fill only about 4 percent of positions needing Senate approval. President Donald has yet to flesh out […]
We need a wall because I’m afeared and cain’t do numbers. Sometimes all ya need to counter silly to outright dangerous fear mongering is whip out a little basic arithmetic and some […]
First, I saw this article. Just the kind of thing to get a bleedin’ heart like me right in the feels. Trump’s Treasury pick Steve Mnuchin oversaw 50,000 foreclosures against the vulnerable […]
