BY SUSAN ESTRICH There’s an old story about a Harvard professor who gets a call from the president [of the United States] and responds that his president is the president of Harvard. Being a professor at Harvard is like that. Academics in Cambridge are a big deal; Harvard is an amazing place; and if you’re […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Wall Street bankers are really mad these days – in both senses of that word! You’d think these whizzes of speculative finance would be ecstatically happy and filled with gratitude, not anger. After all, having crashed our economy, they were allowed to keep their cushy jobs, get bailed out with trillions of […]

BY FROMA HARROP Iranian students are engaging this week in Round Two of their street-level struggle for reform. Round One took place last June, when young people protested the fixed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. About 30 people died in those huge demonstrations. That was a remarkably low number given the brutal tendencies of the […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER It is more than a little interesting, although not unexpected, to see that Sen. Jim Inhofe is "leading the charge" on...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH To be honest, I don’t care whether Valerie Jarrett plays basketball or not. And I certainly would hate to see Ambassador Susan Rice, known to be a good player, missing meetings at the United Nations so she can make it to the White House court. Last week, the president’s all-male basketball game […]