BY SHARON MARTIN If someone really believes something, you can present him with facts to the contrary. He won’t change his mind. Rather, he will...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Hypothetical conundrums can provide some valuable learning experiences for students of corporate management and ethics, so let’s study one. Suppose you’re a corporate chieftain who’s an adamant acolyte of Ayn Randian, free-enterprise fundamentalism, despising government regulation, compulsory taxation and government intervention in the purity of the holy marketplace. But – whoopsie daisy […]

UPDATE: Oklahoma lawmakers today told Gov. Mary Fallin what she could do with her veto pen – overwhelmingly voting to override yesterday's veto of HB...

BY FROMA HARROP Did you read about investors in Chipotle Mexican Grill rejecting the outlandish pay package the fast-food chain’s two CEOs had cooked up for themselves? Stockholders overwhelmingly booed the mega-million payout, which would have come on top of the $300 million the duo have harvested in recent years. By the way, the average […]

BY JOE CONASON More than 50 years ago, CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow revealed to America the awful conditions suffered by migrant farm laborers in “Harvest of Shame,” an angry documentary that would become a classic. While conditions have improved for some of the families whose work provides our cornucopia of affordable food, there remains […]