It is likely a drawback of democracy that hard decisions—that is, those in which fixing the problem goes against instant gratification...

Why do corporate managements spend corporate money on charities? The obvious reason is to reduce the amount of corporate income tax due. ...

Size matters, at least in the business world. Richard Fuld, the last CEO and Chairman of Lehman Brothers, overextended "his" ba...

Assuming all the votes cast in an election are accurately tallied, the pronouncement of the winner would seem to be straight-forward. Wha...

Two centuries after the War of 1812, the Canadian government sought to commemorate the “fact” that Canada had thwarted the invasion of tr...

The New York Times labeled Jamal Khashoggi “a journalist critical of the Saudi government.” [1]  His day job was being a contributing column...

Typically as a company transitions from an enterprising, creative new venture to a large organization to be managed, a staid CEO replaces a...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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