BY JOE CONASON If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year – or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the “public option” – then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption. The punishment inflicted […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising higher and higher. While this is tough on consumers, we’re assured by a covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts that nothing can be done about it, for it’s simply the law of supply and demand in action – so suck […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I always love it when politicians start talking about “the American people” believing this or that, as if we all do and they know it. Years ago, we nicknamed my friend Francie’s mother “The Nation” because she was so fond of speaking for it. Truth is, Americans do agree on a lot […]

BY FROMA HARROP President Obama has a green light and open eight-lane highway for health-care reform. But somehow the guy can’t put his foot on the gas. He hedges in neutral while some fellow Democrats muck up policy and Republicans demagogue them into mush. A commanding 85% of Americans want “fundamental changes” in American health […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Perhaps a better title for this piece would be: “Health Care as Interpreted by One Dummy to Another.” Unlike many of...