As November nears, Texas GOP gets weirder
The great State of Texas has always been an asylum for colorful characters, but something is burnishing those colors to high gloss of late.
Union baiting equals hating
A couple of months ago, I heard Joel Klein, head of New York's Department of Education, blame the teachers' union contract for the fact that there are a lot of Jewish holidays on the school calendar
Mob protest at Ground Zero takes aim at Bill of Rights
NEW YORK - An angry mob showed up in lower Manhattan to protest the opening of an "extremist Islamic center that aims to mock the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and create an army of jihadists who'll wage a battle that will eventually, if successful, destroy the America."
BP and disaster capitalism
A Gulf Coast disaster has again shocked an entire nation. The callous corporate disregard for safety, workers' lives and environmental devastation is infuriating and mind-boggling.
What the economic conversation needs to be about
The focus on "fiscal responsibility" conceals the real causes of the crisis, and if we don't address those we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of lifting workers out of the quicksand.
Behind the employment headlines
Today's business reports will headline a 431,000 growth in employment during May - but there's one little problem: nearly all were temporary Census jobs.
NYC: No need for budget cuts; tax the rich
Reading the news, one could be forgiven for believing the false notion that there is too little money in the state of New York.
The otherworldly attack on public education
The crisis in U.S. public education is beginning to read like something out of the theater of the absurd.
Getting to national health care
The Affordable Care Act was an important first step, but a first step to where - and when we finally get "there," what is "there" going to look like?
End Gaza blockade
The outrageous attack on the Freedom Flotilla has brought forward both opportunity and necessity for stronger action by the United States to push Israel to end the blockade of Gaza, stop settlement construction, and engage in serious talk.
