I just received an email that is so perfectly crafted I thought I’d publish it here in its entirety. The subject: Citizens United, the notorious U. S. Supreme Court decision of 2010 that enables corporations to spend as much as …
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A Feasible Plan To Migrate To Renewable Energy
A friend asked me if I’d be interested in collaborating on a book that would offer a sensible plan to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. I responded that I’d be thrilled to collaborate on such a project and offered …
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We Want a Sustainable Civilization, But There’s a Catch
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of novelist Joseph Heller (books by this author), born in Brooklyn (1923) and best known for the novel Catch-22 (1961), about an American bombardier named John Yossarian. During World War II, Yossarian …
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Where Do Free Speech Rights End?
I recently took a position that public universities should not accept donations from groups who admit that they are trying to influence the political philosophy taught at those schools, and that environmental groups shouldn’t accept donations from polluters. A reader responds: …
Citizens United: Buh-Bye!
As I wrote yesterday, Obama is not checking out of here without making some extremely important reforms before he goes, and he seems to be picking up the pace as the time for his departure from office nears. Here he’s …
Citizens United Soon To Be Overturned and the US Republic Returned to the People
It’s so easy to be cynical about the prospects for justice in the world. Even here in the U.S., the land of the free and the home of the brave, our big corporations have taken near-complete control of our law-making …
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A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Citizen’s United
A referendum on the California ballot in 2016 will provide voters the opportunity to express their rancor with respect to the dreaded Citizen’s United decision. In 2012, two other states—Colorado and Montana—ratified similar resolutions by overwhelming majorities. My prediction:
Citizens United Is On Its Way Out
“If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.” ~ Ruth …
Lessons Emerging from Volkswagen’s Crime of the Century
My colleague Brian McGowan notes on the Volkswagen scandal: The one thing that all of this does prove again is that no corporation is ever to be trusted to “do the right thing” in spite of the fact that one …
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Saying Goodbye to Citizens United
What a great time to be alive. Just when the world’s people needed a reminder that their viewpoints still matter, it appears that we’re about to see this play itself out. In particular, the people of the United States (often …
