The Voices

With the close of World War I, wartime propagandists found themselves unemployed, but with the enviable knowledge of how to manipulate millions of people to do their bidding. more »

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The first thing I noticed about Juan when I met him is his presence. For a young man, just graduated from high school --- that period when most of us were shy and awkward at best --- Juan is confident and vocal, the kind of person with clear potential to be a leader in whatever field he might choose. more »

While the recession is just beginning, it’s not too early to start pointing fingers as to who is responsible. This is not just an exercise in vengeance (although that might be fun); the people who wrecked the economy should be held accountable. We also should be clear about the policies that gave us this mess so we don’t go this route again more »

Perhaps because national infrastructure is so amenable to physiological comparison – highways are the nation’s bloodstream, its sewage systems the digestive tract, its bridges synapses – it is also subject, at least in journalistic cliché, to one of life’s few inevitabilities: aging. more »

I have written often about my perplexity concerning this administration and its courses. The most recent attempt , ‘Bush Who’, was mostly concerned with the President himself. It does not satisfy on the larger question of nearly inexplicable courses pursued by a whole administration. more »

When I was a kid, my dad used to make a quarter appear behind my ear. He’d wave both his hands to distract me while, all along, the coin was hidden up his sleeve. That was the trick. more »

Say you owned the corner store and needed to hire one employee. more »