Greed

The me-first, screw-everyone-else crowd The me-first, screw-everyone-else crowd

Nothing will keep the rich from whining about how tough easy street is
By David Sirota Aug 8, 2009

  • Bankers look to Jesus for cover

    Love others as yourself is a holy endorsement greed, says Goldman exec. Where's the hellfire?
    By Andrew Leonard November 4, 2009

  • How conservative greed and corruption destroyed American politics

    Abramoff, DeLay, Norquist, oh my! The spectacular misrule of the GOP was not an accident.
    By Thomas Frank August 7, 2008

  • Brave new jobs

    My menial job at a world-famous Washington resort was a crash course in today's screw-the-worker zeitgeist -- and the charming, monied guests who thrust bloody bandages into my hands and made my dignified old co-worker perform like a seal.
    By Claudia O'Keefe April 28, 2004

  • How to upgrade human values

    If Obama gives us universal healthcare, will we become better people?
    By Andrew Leonard July 20, 2009

  • Eliot Spitzer's monumental fall from grace

    In the post-dot-com, post-Enron era, the attorney general of New York landed some uppercuts on the high and mighty. But now he's the one lying on the mat. By his own hand.
    By Andrew Leonard March 10, 2008

  • Don't be happy. Worry

    Did too much optimism get Wall Street in trouble?
    By Andrew Leonard February 19, 2008

  • Of greed, technolibertarianism and geek omnipotence

    Paulina Borsook talks with Thomas Scoville about her new book, "Cyberselfish."
    By Thomas Scoville May 4, 2000

  • Who wants to save a network?

    New for fall TV -- more buzz, a Gifford embargo and 1 million "Millionaires."
    By Christina Nunez March 20, 2000

  • The wacky world of television

    On American game shows, you answer questions and win money. In the rest of the world, you get naked and bob for false teeth in a bucket of pig eyeballs.
    By Gavin McNett March 13, 2000

  • TV 1999

    From "The Sopranos" to "Greed," a look back at the highs and lows of the year in television.
    By Joyce Millman December 13, 1999

  • The adaptation racket

    "Mansfield Park" trashes Jane Austen's novel, but Von Stroheim's "Greed" masterfully uncovers creatures of the id.
    By Michael Sragow December 2, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it time for a female vice president? Plus: Get that spam out of my mailbox; "Millionaire" contestant gives Philbin the thumbs-up.
    Letters to the Editor November 22, 1999

  • For the love of the game show

    ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" hits the jackpot; Fox's "Greed" is not good.
    By Joyce Millman November 16, 1999

  • Who surfs to be a millionaire?

    Talk about hefty user-acquisition costs. A CBS-backed portal site called iWon.com gives away millions -- to differentiate itself.
    By Andy Dehnart November 16, 1999

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Nov. 11, 1999
    By Joyce Millman November 11, 1999

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Nov. 4, 1999
    By Joyce Millman November 4, 1999

  • "The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age" by David Rains Wallace

    The fury of two paleontologists tells us much about the temper of the late-19th century. Unfortunately, the book is a slog.
    By Thomas Hackett November 4, 1999

  • Media money fixation

    Another day, another IPO, another media lament on how today's Silicon Valley is all about greed, greed, greed.
    By Janelle Brown October 4, 1999
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