From the left: Corporations Doing What Gov’t Won’t

The federal government is a mess, but look what private corporations are doing, says Frank Bruni at The New York Times: Elon Musk is picking up the space baton from NASA, Amazon is not only working with JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway to create its own health-care provider but also working to become a leader in employee training and grooming the work force. Bruni comments, “We Americans are living a paradox. We’re keenly suspicious of big corporations — just look at how many voters thrilled to Bernie Sanders’ jeremiads about a corrupt oligarchy, or at polls that show a growing antipathy to capitalism — and yet we’re ever more reliant on them. They’re in turn bolder, egged on by the ineptness and inertia of Washington.”