The Worden Report
Friday, October 12, 2018

On a Blatant Conflict of Interest in Georgia

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A coalition of advocacy groups launched a lawsuit on October 11, 2018 to “block Georgia from enforcing a practice critics say endangers th...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Congressional Cuts to Food Stamps: Violating a Human Right?

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During the debate in the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2013 on a proposed $20.5 billion in cuts over 10 years to the Supplemental N...

Food as a Human Right: A Basis in Rousseau

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The natural right to food unconditionally in society is based, I submit, on the assumption that it is because a person without food is in s...

Income Inequality: Natural or Artificial?

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In the United States, the disposable income of families in the middle of the income distribution shrank by 4 percent between 2000 and 2010,...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Bank of America Exploited State Tax-Rate Differentials in the E.U.: Systemic Risk and Federalism Blindsided

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In 2012, the corporate income tax rate was reduced from 26% to 24 percent. With the comparable rate in Germany at 29% and France at 33 pe...

Were Raises at Bailed-Out U.S. Companies Approved by Treasury?

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In early 2013, the Special Inspector General for Troubled Asset Relief Program reported that the U.S. Treasury Department disregarded its o...

Egypt: A Missed Opportunity to Interiorize Protests

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How a democratic system is designed can be as important as whether the government officials have been elected or appointed. In constructing...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

The Post

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In Spielberg’s The Post (2017), the fateful decision to publish portions of the Pentagon Papers centers on Katharine Graham’s being willing...

On Democratic Accountability in a Republic: The Pentagon Papers

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The publication of portions of the Pentagon Papers despite President Nixon’s threats of treason highlighted the fact that four presidents s...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Deaf-Signing at Mandela's Memorial and Kavanaugh's Confirmation FBI Probe: Cover-Ups?

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Watching U.S. President Barak Obama speak of his hero, Nelson Mandela, on December 10, 2013, something was distracting me; the rather lar...

Connecting the Dots: Zuckerberg's Facebook Stock

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Why did Mark Zuckerberg unload $2.3 billion of his Facebook stock? The complete answer likely involves more than meets the eye, at least ...

Mandela’s Courage as Politicized Forgiveness

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Whereas we grasp the interior sense in which Gandhi taught to forgive, the media promoted a false, politicized forgiveness as operating i...

Can the Federal Reserve Handle Banks Too Big To Fail?

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The biggest banks operating in the U.S. reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Federal Reserve’s below-mark...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Picking a President by Polls

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It is one thing to say that something is broken; it is quite another thing to fix it. In such a case, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it doesn...

U.S.Budget Deficits: Of Virtue or Vice?

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Chronic government fiscal deficits, and thus debt, may suggest that a people is not up to self-governance. Moreover, the imbalance may be a...
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