The Long View

I once decided to create a national prize for pandering.

The news cycle moves so fast, these days, that unless you have a personal interest in the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which led the news a few weeks ago, you have already moved on to other ‘breaking news’ such as the indictment of former president Donald J. Trump.

Just about twenty years ago (March 20, 2003) the United States and its coalition partners invaded Iraq and began one of America’s worst wars in terms of furthering the goal of making the world a safer place.  Since then, our natural tendency to forget, aided by the wish of some people who want us not to remember the reality of a war that lasted

It was a thrill for me to chat for a while with ex-president Jimmy Carter in Atlanta in 1989, in the service of writing a children’s book eventually entitled “The President Builds a House,” about the work of Habitat For Humanity, and for which he had agreed to write the introduction.

If your employment requires you to be a union member, it seems logical that you should be able to deduct your union dues from your income taxes, doesn’t it?

About 30 years ago I was co-authoring a book with a CEO of a multi-million-dollar private company, and he informed me that he was going on the board of a larger public company at the behest of its two new controlling owners, clients of his, and that they had decided to take salaries of just $1 apiece per year and tie the rest of their compensati

Pondering with dismay this week’s tremendous burden of videos showing unmistakably violent actions on the part of police forces throughout the country, I was reminded of essential lessons I’d learned during a decade of filmmaking with and about police and law enforcement.