Elegy for GM–and Ourselves Elegy for GM–and Ourselves
When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.
Feb 21, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Freezing Their Assets Freezing Their Assets
Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.
Feb 14, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Pension? What Pension? Pension? What Pension?
The stampede is on in corporate America to freeze or pare back pension benefits. And that will leave most of us out in the cold.
Feb 8, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
SpongeBob SquarePants, Health Risk SpongeBob SquarePants, Health Risk
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is suing Kellogg and Viacom for using cartoon characters to brainwash kids into consuming mass amounts of junk food.
Jan 31, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Eating Ourselves to Death Eating Ourselves to Death
The toxic food industry is fueling a preventable epidemic of diabetes. Most vulnerable are poor children, barraged with ads urging them to eat the sugar and grease-laden food that ...
Jan 23, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Monetary Zombies Monetary Zombies
We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
Jan 17, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Do the Crime, Do No Time Do the Crime, Do No Time
There ought to be a law about bribery in America, but there isn't--not a real one. Bribery is so central to our political culture that it's virtually impossible that any politician...
Jan 6, 2006 / Editorial / Nicholas von Hoffman
Limbo to Close: Mass Evictions Expected Limbo to Close: Mass Evictions Expected
The Vatican is about to close limbo, the theological netherworld where unbaptized babies, prophets and philosophers were believed to reside in lieu of heaven. This is causing a who...
Dec 13, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust
General Motors is dimming the headlights on its industrial utopia in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The cutback at the visionary Saturn plant, where workers and managers once shared decis...
Dec 7, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper? Anybody Want to Buy a Newspaper?
Under pressure from Wall Street, newspaper journalism is being frog-marched out of the media marketplace. And once it's gone, how will we know anything?
Dec 2, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman