If you’re part of the one percent, even getting fired comes with a cushion made of eiderdown. GMI, a research company that gets paid to keep an eye on such things, just issued a study headlined, “Twenty-One U.S. CEOs with Golden Parachutes of More than $100 Million.” That’s each. Continue reading
The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, and all eyes are now on South Carolina. Continue reading
Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing classic Raging Bull, we are gluttons for punishment. So here we are again, third week in a row, defending NPR against the bare-knuckled assault of its critics. Continue reading
There’s no more scrupulous or versatile broadcast journalist than NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling. He is one of those reporters who keeps his eye on the sparrow—that is, on small details from individual lives that add up to significant issues of public policy. As he described in a special report last week how the United States Army is clarifying guidelines “that should make it easier for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries from explosions to receive the Purple Heart,” it was mind-boggling to think that right-wingers in Congress were at that very moment voting to eliminate the modest federal funds that make such essential and authoritative reporting available to anyone in America who cares to tune in. Continue reading
Come on now: Let’s take a breath and put this National Public Radio (NPR) fracas into perspective. Continue reading
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The Washington-Wall Street revolving door just keeps spinning along
Posted on January 25, 2012 by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.” Continue reading →