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This is the month that Ronald Reagan and his associates destroyed any pretense of enforcing the antitrust laws — those anti-monopoly charters for a competitive marketplace. In just one week, the Justice Department dropped its opposition to the merger of LTV Corp. with Republic Steel (resulting in the nation’s second largest steel producer), and the…

Turn the dial or turn off the television are the two choices given Americans who spend an average of 25 hours a week in front of the tube. The corporate license holders who control the public’s airwaves would not want it any other way. But there is another way for the people in Holland. In…

The other day a friend complained about the fatigue and headaches she and her office associates kept feeling in their office. After some inquiries they are persuaded that their afflictions have their source in some form of indoor pollution at their place of work. Hearing her description reminded me of all the concern over home…

Norman Fawley is a lone California inventor of a more practical way to use natural gas as a vehicle fuel. “While I would like to think that the world would recognize an inventor, this simply is not a fact”, he declared. Jim Bagby is a coal miner in Kentucky. In the mines he builds brattices…

Some of her suburban Washington neighbors were skeptical about Jo Ann York’s casual claims regarding her family of four’s food bills. So in 1976 she wrote a book entitled “How I Feed My Family on $16 a Week.” With her husband and two pre-teen children York showed how they “eat three balanced, nutritious meals a…

Can the Democrats retire Ronald Reagan in November? If their voter registration drives among women, minorities and students succeed, the chances are good. Historically, the larger the voter turnout (it was only 52% of the eligible voters in 1980), the more likely will be a Republican defeat. But getting more voters registered and voting is…

Behind the recent dramatic announcement by the American Cancer Society (ACS) launching a campaign against corporate sources of cancer in the environment, workplace and diet is the untold story of Dr. Michael Jacobson and his Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). For fifteen years this 40-year old MIT-trained microbiologist has been a consumer…

Houston — When Texan Lloyd Doggett, probably the country’s fastest rising state legislator, announced last year his campaign for the U.S. Senate, he began to hear the same response from people he thought were likely supporters. They all expressed admiration for his sterling ten year record of progressive work in the Texas senate, but they…

Washington, DC — Two automobile company bosses came to town last week to speak and never were their messages more different from one another. First there was Roger Smith, the head of General Motors, addressing the National Press Club. In his entire speech text of 16 pages, not once did he refer to his company’s…

Presidents usually grace their annual State of the Union address before Congress with several servings of stirring language. But this year Ronald Reagan filled his address with soaring rhetoric which camouflaged falsehoods behind politically cunning expressions designed to keep hope springing eternal. Reagan wants people to see him as a new prophet who, promptly from…