The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.