“Bad Energy”

"It is the function of marketing to deal with the identity of a place. We have had potential clients that turned away because of the bad energy of the mental hospital association. This name change reflects the sensible concept of integrating clients into the...

The World This Week: The Promised Land

America is collectively standing at the mountaintop that Martin Luther King, Jr. talked about on the night before his murder 40 years ago. He told a room full of striking Memphis sanitation workers that God had "allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've...

Imperium Watch: Make Bush's Day

In spite of a National Intelligence Estimate from last December that found that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Congress may soon give President Bush a weapon to use to strike at Iran—and claim that he is simply enforcing the wishes of...
What Now?

What Now?

Four years ago, Home Depot opened a store in Brattleboro directly across the street from a locally owned hardware store. A citizens' group called BrattPower quickly formed to call for a boycott of the giant corporate chain. Members of the group stood outside the...

What do you think?

Down With SuperdelegatesThis is to applaud "A Little More Equal" [May 15, 2008]. Is your vote delegatable? Are you willing to give your proxy vote to either party or candidate? Who are those partisans who presume to appoint "super" delegates to...