• Column: Work means everything to us — and hereafter it can’t

    Column: Work means everything to us — and hereafter it can’t

    Jan 05, 2017 06:56 PM EDT

    ... marginal effect on employment. Taxing the profits of corporations to finance a welfare state that permits us to love our neighbors and to be our brother’s keeper is not an economic problem. It’s something else — it’s an intellectual issue, a moral conundrum. READ MORE: Column: Why we ...

  • Column: Why we need to say goodbye to work

    Column: Why we need to say goodbye to work

    Jan 03, 2017 09:44 PM EDT

    ... plain view of the end of work, the lesson needs rethinking. No matter how you calculate the federal budget, we can afford to be our brother’s keeper. The real question is not whether, but how we choose to be. I know what you’re thinking — we can’t afford ...

  • Column: I'm predicting an economic recession in 2017. Are you ready?

    Column: I'm predicting an economic recession in 2017. Are you ready?

    Jan 03, 2017 07:05 PM EDT

    ... record. How much longer can it continue? No one knows why economic expansions end. It could be a sudden trigger like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in late 2008 or just a general loss of confidence. Economic theories, such as works by economist Hyman Minsky, explain that the longer an ...

  • The shows you should have watched in 2016

    The shows you should have watched in 2016

    Dec 29, 2016 12:22 AM EDT

    ... You're saving my ass. ACTOR: OK, man. Well, you know, I got to go now. DONALD GLOVER: OK. Cool. So, what you guys doing right now? You dudes do that deal? ACTOR: I do not know what you mean. JEFFREY BROWN: All right, so, Eric, that's the main ...

  • ‘Othello: The Remix’ gives Shakespeare the hip-hop treatment

    ‘Othello: The Remix’ gives Shakespeare the hip-hop treatment

    Dec 24, 2016 07:15 PM EDT

    ... Lookin’ for the loot, but there was none for Othello.” IVETTE FELICIANO: In their production of “Othello: The Remix," rap and theater artists, the Q Brothers, reimagine the classic William Shakespeare play for a modern, hip-hop audience. For real-life brothers GQ and JQ, hip-hop is more than ...

  • Why German surveillance failed to stop the Berlin attack suspect

    Why German surveillance failed to stop the Berlin attack suspect

    Dec 23, 2016 12:43 AM EDT

    ... PETER NEUMANN, International Center for the Study of Radicalization: Well, the latest is that they are still trying to track down where exactly he is right now, and they are conducting raids on different places that are connected to the jihadist scene. It is now known that he was part ...

  • The music is medicine for Bruce Springsteen

    The music is medicine for Bruce Springsteen

    Dec 21, 2016 12:37 AM EDT

    ... like the big hitters, like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and those guys? BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The big hitters, yes. Yes, when I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that -- that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological. JEFFREY BROWN ...

  • With Ivanka Trump, the role of first daughter may evolve

    With Ivanka Trump, the role of first daughter may evolve

    Dec 17, 2016 04:58 PM EDT

    With Ivanka Trump, the typically minor role of a first daughter could get a major makeover.

  • Nashville’s storied music spaces threatened with silence

    Nashville’s storied music spaces threatened with silence

    Dec 13, 2016 01:00 AM EDT

    Downtown Nashville has been a backbone of the nation’s music industry for more than six decades, giving the nation stars such as Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton. But the increasing demand for new apartments and office buildings is threatening its historic music spaces. Jeffrey Brown reports on the city’s struggle to find a balance between...

  • In a land of thundering reindeer, suicide stalks the indigenous Sami

    In a land of thundering reindeer, suicide stalks the indigenous Sami

    Dec 11, 2016 03:21 PM EDT

    Suicide is a growing problem among the indigenous Sami of Sweden. Many work as reindeer herders, and feel acute anxiety about the effects of climate change.