The Enron corporate culture was one that catered to hyper-energized, testosterone-injected alpha males, according to this hour’s guest, Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner. Board meetings often resembled brawls, where people kept their jobs by sacrificing their co-workers. If you couldn’t run with the pack at Enron, you would be consumed by it.
Within this glittering glass [...]

“Illegal file-sharing and ripping of music files is pervasive, out of control and oh so criminal. Many of the nominees here tonight, especially the new, less-established artists, are in immediate danger of being marginalized out of our business. Ripping is stealing their livelihood one digital file at a time, leaving their musical dreams haplessly snared [...]

According to national security analyst Chris Seiple, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have it right when it comes to American security and the use of its military.
Democrats want to use the military for everything, from nation building to humanitarian issues. Republicans only want the military to be used with overwhelming force in conventional wars. [...]

In what is believed to be a medical first, a woman with a gene that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s gave birth to a child without the gene, thanks a laboratory procedure that pre-selected her eggs.
The 33-year-old patient had eggs removed from her body; those with the offending gene were discarded and those without were artificially fertilized. [...]

With Israel and Palestine at a violent impasse, Saudi Arabia stepped in earlier this week to propose a plan to end the decades-old war. Saudi Arabia promised full recognition of Israel’s right to exist if Israel pulled its troops out of occupied lands that formerly belonged to Arab nations. Because of Saudi Arabia’s influence in [...]

As many economists express optimism that the economy is turning around, the numbers paint a less rosy picture. In January, the unemployment rate hovered at 5.6%. It was a slight drop from the month before, but that was only because nearly one million Americans had given up on finding work. In January, the American economy [...]

Sylvia Plath. Anne Sexton. Robert Lowell. In addition to being great writers, these three Americans have something else in common: they all spent time at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Some of the other prominent names that have appeared on the McLean roster include “A Beautiful Mind” subject John Nash; Central Park designer Frederick Olmstead, [...]

As the United States pursues its “war against terrorism,” several of its most important allies have expressed concern about what they see as America’s willingness to go it alone. After President Bush’s famous “axis of evil” statement, EU External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten called the “unilateralist urge” in Washington “profoundly misguided.”
To the Europeans, the best [...]

Mike Tyson was cleared of sexual assault charges yesterday, clearing the way for his June 8th bout with Lennox Lewis in Washington, DC. The Tyson camp has been looking for a venue to stage the fight, which was originally scheduled for April but was postponed when the Nevada Boxing Commission denied Tyson a boxing license.
The [...]

Government officials confirmed last night that kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had been killed by his captors. Pearl was abducted on January 23rd while reporting on a story about the possible links between alleged “shoe-bomber” Richard Reid and Pakistani militants.
Pearl’s death has shaken journalists worldwide, who have to face dangers every day in [...]

It was less than a half-century ago in the heart of the Midwest that a witch-hunt that would make a Puritan proud resulted in dozens of homosexual men being institutionalized. The panic began with the brutal assault and murder of a young boy and a young girl in Sioux City, Iowa in 1955. The police’s [...]

Many academic studies have been written about the different cultures that surround the lives of black and white Americans. Karla Holloway has taken that analysis a step further — to examine the cultural difference in how Caucasians and African Americans die.
The black funeral industry had its inception at the beginning of the 20th century. Holloway [...]

Thirty years to the day after President Nixon’s historic visit to China, President George W. Bush is scheduled to arrive in Beijing this evening to visit with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
The relationship between the two leaders got off to a rocky start last year, when the Chinese downed a U.S. spy plane and detained the [...]

Earlier this week, the Bush Administration unveiled a new protocol for dealing with Americans who are kidnapped and held hostage overseas. The new approach will require the government to at least review every single case of kidnapping, and consider taking direct action in every case. In the past, the government frequently did not even consider [...]

60 years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans. The fear that people of Japanese descent living in America might aid the cause of the Axis power at war with the United States was enough to compel the government to undertake what many call [...]

The media did a great job in the early stages of the war on terror, concludes a new study by The Project for Excellence in Journalism. But, over the past several months, the press’s performance has rated less than stellar.
“As the story moved to the war in Afghanistan, however, analysis and opinion swelled–so much so [...]

President Bush has finally unveiled his much-anticipated plan to reduce so-called greenhouse emissions that are thought to play a role in global climate change.
The new plan will not require greenhouse emissions cutbacks as the Kyoto Protocol would have. The Kyoto treaty was rejected by the Bush Administration last year even though nearly every other industrial [...]

The federal government requires companies to pay their employees at least $5.15 per hour. But many municipalities across the country have decided that the minimum wage is simply not enough for someone to live on.
New Orleans became the latest city to enact a “living wage” ordinance. But unlike similar efforts, the New Orleans plan covers [...]

With an election scheduled to be held in less than a month, Zimbabwe is again experiencing turmoil, as the government led by President Mugabe is inciting violence and refusing to recognize international elections observers.
Thomas Mapfumo knows all about upheaval in Zimbabwe. As the majority Shona tribe fought for freedom from the ruling white Rhodesian government, [...]

Ma Bell felt its wrath. So did the airline industry. More recently, the trend towards deregulation has honed in on the utility companies around the nation. California became one of the first states to deregulate its power market, and it saw a steep rise in prices and rolling blackouts as a result. Enron was essentially [...]