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Whistleblowers and Wiki-leaks: Hater Talk, Half-Step Walk

New Orleans Reading the long story in The New Yorker recently, it was clear that Thomas A. Drake was no dream employee at National Security Agency (NSA), but it was even more obvious that trying to convict him of the Espionage Act was ridiculous, so seeing him plead out on a misdemeanor deal is probably [...]

Support for Taxing the Rich

New Orleans I won’t say it’s a sea change, but there are starting to be some encouraging signs of change among the elites and critical chattering classes on the issue of more equitable taxation, particularly the need for the rich to pay their fair share.

In a recent issue of the New Yorker, surely a [...]

New Yorker: White Men Save the World

Quepos It’s probably always true to a huge degree in the New Yorker eye view of the world, but it was even more stark reading the current issue on the plane that was ostensibly about efforts to impact environments.  The “world changers” as the magazine labeled them were all stereotypically weird, outsider, loner white [...]

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