BY SUSAN ESTRICH Something very scary is happening out there. The gas line was cut at the house of one congressman’s brother after his address was posted online as a way to send a message to the congressman about his vote for health care reform. A coffin was left on another’s front lawn. A number […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Is there really a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? Yes and No. Yes, because the world’s premier power doesn’t care to have its vice president publicly humiliated by a midget of a nation whose entire population is smaller than that of Los Angeles County. No, because the elected politicians nominally running the government […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER I seldom write in the first person. But there is always the exception. The reports of violence against members of Congress and...

BY KENNY BELFORD Republicans find the term "The Party of No" very offensive. It's a recent term applied to them, but over the decades they've...

BY JOE CONASON Listening to right-wing talk radio on the day after Congress passed health care reform, Bill O’Reilly was stunned. To him, the hosts and the callers sounded “crazed” as they shrieked about “the end of the world, we’re socialist now, we have to take the country back.” Maybe the Fox News host hasn’t […]