BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’ve written this column so many times for so many years that it makes me nervous even to begin. More than 25 years after Geraldine Ferraro crashed the glass ceiling to be nominated for vice president, we should be long past “years of the woman.” When men win, we call it Tuesday. […]

BY KAREN WEBB Mr. President, You have a lot of nerve coming out anti-union in Arkansas or anywhere else. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38343_Page2.html Blanche Lincoln saying "this senator can't be...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER If you ever want to spook a smug, stuffed-shirt corporate CEO – I mean spook him so bad that he jumps clear out of his Guccis and screams louder than Little Richard – sneak up behind him and shout “union!” They hate that. Corporate chieftains get the heebie-jeebies at the mere mention […]

BY FROMA HARROP Gulf Coast residents are supposedly mad at President Obama for not keeping the oil from threatening their beaches and marshes. We hear this in stereo – from political opposition on the right and liberal pundits bored by the president’s cerebral approach to problem-solving. Stopping the waves is a job for Neptune, not […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN As the TV networks give unlimited airtime to its apologists, the message rolls out that Israel is permitted every illegal act in the lexicon of international law, from acts of violence against a civilian population [the people of Gaza, starved under permanent blockade] to piracy on the high seas, in the lethal […]