Being a U.S. corporation is a privileged position: responsibility counts for nothing and self-interest is elevated to a fine art. Here are five corporations who owe the American people thanks for bailouts and tax dodges.

When it was reported a few days ago that Disney has opened an English-language school in Shanghai, China, using Disney characters and songs as mnemonics, it got me thinking about the future of education, generally. With the news of the Disney school, it seems that civilization has taken the first step toward manifesting the world of Mike Judge’s film “Idiocracy.”

Hummer, the SUV brand that has been making environmentalists exceedingly angry for years now, is being discontinued by General Motors.  I guess people are finally waking up to the fact that a vehicle with such awful fuel efficiency isn’t good for anyone – both the general population and individual drivers are directly disserviced by Hummers’ [...]