Lewis Lapham

The War on Drugs is a war on human nature

America's been fighting this battle for decades. It can't be won, and it's costing us upwards of $20 billion a year

Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch.com 18 Topics: TomDispatch.com, The War on Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Thomas Paine, LSD

The 2012 presidential campaign will cost close to $2.5 billion dollars -- most of it financed by the obscenely rich

Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch.com 26 Topics: Plutocracy, Oligarchy, TomDispatch.com, Congress, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, 2012 Elections

The more data we collect via Google, YouTube and Facebook, the less likely we are to understand what it means

Lewis Lapham Topics: Internet Culture, Media Criticism