Author Archives: MZR

From the Roman Empire to the BlackBerry jam. The Wall Street Journal: August 20, 2010 It’s high summer and we’re all out there seeing each other. We’re not hidden away in our homes and offices as we are in winter’s … Continue reading →

Dylan Ratigan is an unlikely champion of the common man, yet is emerging as one of the strongest voices for economic reform in the United States. August 14, 2010  |  Financial markets had just opened on a Thursday morning in … Continue reading →

By BOB HERBERT Published: August 6, 2010 The world leadership qualities of the United States, once so prevalent, are fading faster than the polar ice caps. We once set the standard for industrial might, for the advanced state of our … Continue reading →

And out-of-touch leaders don’t see the need to cool things off. Peggy Noonan- August 6, 2010 It is, obviously, self-referential to quote yourself, but I do it to make a point. I wrote the following on New Year’s day, 1994. … Continue reading →

By Mary Schmich 1997 Graduation Speech Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out, some world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who’d rather be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited … Continue reading →

By Chris Hedges  July 19, 2010 The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native … Continue reading →

By Bob Herbert July 16, 2010  NY Times    I was driving from Washington to New York one afternoon on Interstate 95 when a car came zooming up behind me, really flying. I could see in the rearview mirror that the … Continue reading →

By Robert reich July 13, 2010 Missing from almost all discussion of America’s dizzying rate of unemployment is the brute fact that hourly wages of people with jobs have been dropping, adjusted for inflation. Average weekly earnings rose a bit … Continue reading →

Posted on Jul 5, 2010 By Chris Hedges Earl Shaffer, adrift after serving in the South Pacific in World War II and struggling with the loss of his childhood friend Walter Winemiller during the assault on Iwo Jima, made his … Continue reading →

June 11, 2010 By Thomas Friedman My friend, Mark Mykleby, who works in the Pentagon, shared with me this personal letter to the editor he got published last week in his hometown paper, The Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina. It … Continue reading →