‘Happy Birthday to You’ Copyright ‘Owners’ Finally Being Sued for Millions
Jul 29, 2014 The birthday song has been in the public domain for decades, but somehow Warner/Chappell Music has gotten away with collecting hundreds of millions in royalties every time it was performed; the richest Americans are mostly inheriting their wealth; meanwhile, although science will make it possible to cryogenically freeze ourselves "until a future age," one writer questions whether that's something we'd actually want. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Child Abuse
Apr 2, 2013‘A Good Year to Die’
Jul 15, 2010 George Steinbrenner's well-timed death -- though I suspect he may not have seen it that way -- points up the insanity of the current estate tax situation.
Warren I. Cohen on Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenges
Jul 17, 2009 The daunting problems Bush’s successor has inherited may prove all but insurmountable as he makes his way through a thicket of difficulties -- the nuclear ambitions of authoritarian regimes, the quagmire of Mesopotamia and the persistent bloodletting in Pakistan and Afghanistan, to name only the most prominent. A recent book by David E. Sanger, a longtime foreign affairs correspondent for The New York Times, offers a close-up look at the world Obama confronts.
