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What Happens When Private Money Pays for Science? Jan. 07, 2016
As a select few accumulate massive fortunes, two schools of thought vie on how to funnel some of tha... Read More
Remembering the Life and Honoring the Legacy of Whitney Ball Aug. 20, 2015
Death focuses the mind. The recent passing of my dear friend Whitney Ball, who devoted her professio... Read More
Does Anyone Believe Hillary Clinton? Mar. 12, 2015
As Hillary Clinton took questions from the media about the personal email account she used as secret... Read More
Secrecy, Sex, Hillary and Bill Mar. 11, 2015
Secrecy is to Hillary Clinton what sex was to Bill Clinton. She has to have it. She doesn't care if ... Read More
Who Cares What Ideology Drives the High-Speed Train? Aug. 12, 2014
In Texas, a private company wants to build a bullet train joining Dallas and Houston. In California,... Read More
You Know Your Country Sucks When You Look Wistfully Back at Stalin Jul. 18, 2014
You can tell a lot about the state of a country by comparing the state of its public and private inf... Read More
The Barn
Jul. 09, 2014
Al Gore's Warnings About Inequality and Democracy Jun. 13, 2014
Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political conventi... Read More
Private Equity Is Becoming a Public Problem Jun. 06, 2014
A few weeks ago, a top official at the Securities and Exchange Commission reported on what he called... Read More
What Have You Said in Private? Apr. 29, 2014
A private recording of racist remarks by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, in ... Read More
86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers Apr. 16, 2014
Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especia... Read More
Friends of Abe has no Friends at IRS Jan. 29, 2014
People for the American Way, founded in 1981 by television producer Norman Lear, makes no secret tha... Read More
Zack Hill
Jan. 24, 2014
