To own the dominant or only newspaper in a mid-sized American city was for many decades a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age however no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
As a parent and a citizen I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over...
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and...
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global...
Local politics like everything else are not what they used to be. But the...
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new...
For the past eight years the right has been better at working the refs. Now...
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant ' it no longer...
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the...
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick...
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.