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A teacher once said to me: “A society pays for what it values.” If so, our society values commercial entertainment, including spectator sports, orders of magnitude more than it values civics defined as the rights and duties exercised by citizens in a democracy. What if we lived in a society that valued both equally? 1.

The super successful mega-investor, Warren Buffett, CEO of the giant conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, was heard to say: There are only 535 members of Congress, why can’t 300 million Americans control them? That’s a pretty fundamental question since our senators and representatives are given their sovereign power by the people. Remember the preamble to our Constitution?

Can We Hold Together as One Country?

Voter grumbling, rage and cynicism is rampant heading into the mid-term elections on November 8th.

Instead of championing solar, wind and conservation energy, the GOP (Greedy Old Party) is championing the skyrocketing profits and prices for the omnicidal fossil fuel and atomic power companies. Surging gasoline prices at the pump are not met with excess profits taxes on profit-glutted Big Oil. Rather the GOP and the Democrats are suspending taxes

Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the dominance of giant corporatism with a Ten-Year Plan1 budgeted at $1 billion a year (See, “Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism,” January 7, 2022). Readers wanted to know more about […]

The Harvard Law Record We live in a post-constitutional universe. We have been reversing course since the American Revolution when George Washington turned aside a crown in favor of a Republic and Thomas Paine preached in Common Sense: “For so in absolute governments the King is the law, so in free countries the law ought to be king.” The President of the United States is now crowned with vastly more unchecked power than the tyranny King George III exercised over our forefathers which p...