To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: April 2010
The GOP’s Tea Troubles
Reading In Black And White
BY FROMA HARROP Such is our gadget obsession that the launch of a new electronic reader has set off a death match between two new-media gorillas, Apple and Amazon.com. Apple’s iPad seeks to end the Amazon Kindle’s domination of the market for devices that let you download books and read them on a screen. The […]
Democracy And Domestic Violence
BY JOE CONASON When the Department of Homeland Security released a cautiously worded report on the potential dangers of right-wing extremism last April, the talk-radio wingnuts and certain Republican lawmakers went into spasms of indignation. Clearly, that report – an innocuous nine-page document commissioned by the previous Republican administration – had been conjured up by […]