Wal-Mart’s Family Values: Who Cares About Kids?

Maybe people are so used to learning disturbing things about Wal-Mart that the latest news from America’s largest and most frightening corporation didn’t cause much of a ripple. There was a dearth of denunciation after The New York Times published a well-reported piece on Wal-Mart’s decision to put 40 percent of its workers on part-time Read More

Wal-Mart’s Family Values: Who Cares About Kids?

Maybe people are so used to learning disturbing things about Wal-Mart that the latest news from America’s largest and most frightening corporation didn’t cause much of a ripple. There was a dearth of denunciation after The New York Times published a well-reported piece on Wal-Mart’s decision to put 40 percent of its workers on part-time Read More

Welcome to Dergulation: Cures That Kill Patients

Are there mourners out there wondering who may have killed more people recently, Osama bin Laden or the big drug corporation, Merck and Co.? When Osama kills, he does so with criminal intent; but when Merck’s anti-arthritis drug, Vioxx, kills its users, the drug company may well not have criminal intent as defined by the Read More