Last month a group of parents, attorneys and religious leaders rallied at the California state Capitol in Sacramento to protest a slate of bills that appear to take control for their children’s education out of the hands of parents.1 California seems to be the most prominent site of the legal battles that are fighting for…

The mainstream media regularly carries stories complaining that our capitalistic system ensures that there is an enormous wealth inequality between the various sectors of our society. The usual theme continues to warn that this inequality is growing…that the gap between the wealthiest of the wealthy and the poorest of the poor is growing exponentially. A…

My first eye-opening experience with voter corruption came about many years ago when I asked a friend what he was doing for the weekend away from college. He told me that he was going home to “work the election.” This took place in Tennessee at the end of 1974 and the biggest story of the…