New Orleans One of the most poignant pictures I have ever seen in a newspaper was standing alone in The Wall Street Journal without an accompanying story. There were three fully armed US Border Patrol agents standing next to an opening in a piece of the existing wall between the United States and Mexico. The …
The Peoples’ Climate March Demonstrates the Danger of the Numbers Game
New Orleans There are many iron laws in organizing, and one of them has to be that the more any tactic is repeated, the less effective it becomes. The so-called resistance may be on the verge of painful reality, as the triumphant numbers of the Women’s March in late January was followed by disappointing numbers …
It Helps the Rich and Powerful that People Are Mystified By Enormous Inequality
New Orleans Some professors are reporting that they are changing their minds about the importance of equality to people. They argue that it’s more about access to opportunity than it is about distribution. Six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Key to their change of mind, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was a …