BY ARNOLD HAMILTON What’s gotten in to House Republicans? And whatever became of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment? You know, Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Today’s...

BY FROMA HARROP Tax the bankers’ profits, tax their bonuses, tax their golf scores. I mean it. Take their windfall, and give it to the taxpayers who bailed them out. Britain and France plan a 50% tax on banker bonuses – coordinated lest their financial bigwigs think of crossing the channel for a better deal. […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH The other day, I walked into a bookstore looking for some escapism and stumbled right into a wall of diet books. It’s January. I published a diet book right around this time back in the ’90s, which is why I’ve been able to mostly avoid the diet book section ever since. But […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN What lies ahead politically? Look for an answer back in the ’90s. Even if the Republicans don’t take over after the midterm elections, the Democratic Party now in Congress is dominated by politicians fashioned in the Clinton era, nourished by such heirs of Aristotle as Rahm Emanuel and, before him, Tony Coelho. […]

BY FROMA HARROP So Google wants to play human-rights superhero. Five years ago, it compromised its standing as the global avatar of cyber-freedom by blocking certain searches on its Chinese website at the behest of the government in Beijing. Now it’s threatening to leave China after discovering a massive campaign to hack the Gmail accounts […]