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Broadcast December 6, 2001 For years now, many management gurus have been urging companies to give their employees a larger share of the profits. The thinking was that workers who invested in their own company would work harder because there’d be a direct connection between effort and reward. This idea came just at a time […]

On the morning of September 11th — three months ago today — I went into a phone booth at a hotel near my evacuated office building, where I’d taken refuge to watch CNN, and called my parents and girlfriend to let them know I was all right. I wasn’t the only one making such a […]

Financial Times Americans are turning against free trade. To halt the protectionist tide, government must minimise the hardship and dislocation caused by foreign competition. In a recent poll, 58 per cent of Americans agreed with the statement that foreign trade was “bad for the US economy because cheap imports hurt wages”. Only 32 per cent […]

The Washington Post Suddenly, there’s a new conversation among the country’s movers and shakers, and several ambitious plans for helping the bottom half share in the nation’s prosperity: Give them, literally, a share in America. Spread capitalism by spreading capital. Consider President Clinton’s proposed “Universal Savings Accounts.” Families earning less than $40,000 would get an […]

The Wall Street Journal If you want to make a dent in the real problems of poor people around the world, don’t fund another panel of experts to do a major report on global hunger, overpopulation, global poverty, global illiteracy, child labor or ethnic strife. Don’t create a program, institute or project staffed by earnest […]

David L. Bosco [“The Next Test In Kosovo,” TAP Vol. 11 Issue 1] worked in Bosnia from 1996 to 1998 as a political analyst and journalist. He is now a second- year student at Harvard Law School and co- director of the Harvard Seminar on Ethics and International Affairs. Nicholas Confessore [“Rwanda, Kosovo, and Limits […]

It is time to resurrect the great American tradition of the tax revolt. Why? Because our biomedical industry is stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Consider the following analogy. Imagine you are stranded on a remote island with a group of fellow survivors of a shipwreck. After a few weeks of lying […]

Louis Dubose [“El Gobernador” TAP Vol. 11 Issue 1] is the editor of The Texas Observer and the co-author (with Molly Ivins) of a forthcoming book on George W. Bush. He recently spoke with Edward Cohn, a staff writer at The American Prospect, about his article on Bush and the Hispanic vote and on Texas […]