William Greider

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.