New Orleans One of our continuing definitions of humanity has to be our ability to still be surprised and shocked at injustice. Reading an article by Sarah Stillman in the New Yorker entitled “Taken” about the criminal scams being pulled off right and left, high and low by police departments to seize the money, property, …
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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 …