The Potential for Dialog

Whatever we may say about issues, it would appear that the British Parliament is better equipped in argue its way out of economic crisis than is the United States government. One reason may be that none of the Members of Parliament have achieved their...

Egon Schiele’s ‘Houses with Laundry’ Fetches Record Sum

The top lot at Wednesday evening’s spring auction at Sotheby’s in London, Egon Schiele’s “Houses with Laundry”, fetched a record sum. An anonymous private bidder paid the impressive sum of 24.681.250 Million Pounds Sterling...

Laura Flanders’ Armistice Metaphor

As I continue to read each piece of economic news as if it were a dispatch from the front lines of the War Against the Poor, whose objective seems to be the banishment of those below the poverty line from the virtual world of financial practices in...