Call me a little slow, but I only just realized that American capitalism has been defined by slavery: most business owners seek to get maximum productivity from laborers while paying the least amount tolerated by society so that they can extract the most wealth for themselves. This thought occurred to…

Dispelling a TV ratings myth — One of the most misleading statements repeated time and again in media stories about rating for events like the January 6 committee hearings is that Fox News is the most-watched cable network on tv. …

Americans are facing a choice between government by a frequently shifting set of powers that are reliant on a constant framework for rulemaking (“democracy”) and one immoveable power that bends the rules at will to suit its needs (“authoritarianism”). When my daughter sought her first full-time job out of college…

How do you tell a real American patriot from one who only claims to be? Listen to how they refer to the person who is President of the the United States, especially when the president is not the person they voted for. Do they refer to him as “your president” or “our president”? That’s the giveaway. If you don’t know which a patriot would choose to say, then you probably aren’t trying hard enough to be one.

I was just reminded about a copyright transgression made by Google against a website I used to publish. In her On Tech column in the New York Times, “What’s the deal with Google now?”, Shira Ovide discusses the legal cloud growing over Google, resulting from its monopolistic tendencies. Among the…

The promise of American democracy is that all people are equal in our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is the bond that propelled 13 colonies to make war against the greatest military of the day and that pitted brother against brother in the Civil War…

“At SXSW we stand with the black community and will continue to amplify the voices and ideas that will lead us to a more equitable society.” That statement in an email from SXSW today triggered something in me that rebels against the constant dividing of Americans into often marginalized subgroups…

My sister has, at different times in our lives, been an honest and constructive critic of my writing. In fact, though she would not know this, she has been a major influence on how I think about writing. …

There’s nothing like an immediate worldwide crisis to focus the attention and resources of an entire society on figuring out how to solve this common problem. That’s what the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, have done. News consumption is up as people try to make sense of this…