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Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers

June 13, 2019

Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers In a May, 22, 2019 appearance in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump declared that “I don’t do cover-ups.” Various news outlets immediately started to enumerate a long list of bona fide cover-ups associated with the president. What can one say about this bit of Trumpian nonsense? Can you accuse a person […]

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The Climate Crisis is Back in the News

October 30, 2018

The Climate Crisis is Back in the News Photo Source Peter Prokosch | CC BY 2.0 The prospect of drastic climate change is back in the news. But, for all too many people it is just that, a news item. It is like other eye-grabbing stories: a bit scary, but also happening somewhere else and […]

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Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism

August 23, 2018

Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism Photograph Source Jeanne Menjoulet | CC BY 2.0 Julian Assange is the Australian founder of Wikileaks—a website dedicated to the public’s right to know what governments and other powerful organizations are doing. Wikileaks pursues this goal by posting revelatory documents, often acquired unofficially, that bring to light the […]

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A System Problem for Democracy

October 31, 2017

A System Problem for Democracy In 1956 William H. Whyte published a book entitled The Organization Man. Basing his findings on a large number of interviews with CEOs of major American corporations, Whyte concluded that, within the context of modern organizational structure, American “rugged individualism” had given way to a “collectivist ethic.” Economic success and individual […]

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America’s Long History of Warfare

October 9, 2017

America’s Long History of Warfare Americans like to view their country as a force for peace in the world when the historical reality is almost the opposite, a reality ignored by the PBS Vietnam War documentary, writes Lawrence Davidson. If you go to the Wikipedia page that gives a timeline of U.S. foreign military operations […]

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