Mike Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times weighs in on the fiasco of CalPERS’ hiring of Charles Asubonten.
Read more...The final chapter in CalPERS’ sorry Asubonten affair.
Read more...Larry Wilkerson is roughed up by Bill Maher for the crime of saying taking steps to avert nuclear war with Russia is a good idea.
Read more...In the midst of a global heat wave, the media refuses to talk about climate change.
Read more...CalPERS has torched $4 million total in beneficiary funds so far by acting as if it were above the law and could steal from journalists and publishers.
Read more...Reader survival strategies for dealing with dogmatic friends and colleagues.
Read more...Google, Twitter, and Facebook are anti-democratic for both readers and writers.
Read more...Facebook wants to control even more of your mind.
Read more...Is storytelling really a magical elixir for social change?
Read more...McKinsey is unhappy that the New York Times did a serious investigative story on a major scandal in South Africa….when the Times pulled some of its punches.
Read more...Beware of the private equity “innovation,” the long-lived or “permanent capital” fund. It is virtually guaranteed to short change investors on returns needed to compensate for the longer holding period.
Read more...Seyrmour Hersh’s retrospective demonstrates how much nerve it takes to do reporting, and how few reporters have it.
Read more...A young anti-poverty, anti-discrimination movement, the Poor Peoples Campaign, is starting to get traction.
Read more...CalPERS, in a desperate-looking defense of its private equity outsourcing scheme, scores an own goal.
Read more...Yemen starves….and why the Western media looks the other way.
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