BY SUSAN ESTRICH For the past two weeks, I’ve been traveling across the country interviewing law students who have applied for jobs at my law firm. I talk to young people from New York who want to be in California, and to young people from California who want to be in New York. Some days, […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD This political season’s crop of Republican candidates has all taken the firm stance exemplified so admirably by Pogo. None of us...

BY FROMA HARROP “Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near,” reads a headline in The Washington Post. It’s long been clear that if Democrats had been less afraid, they’d have less to be afraid of now. Case in point was the brawl over health care, which a timid President Obama let go on […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon has announced. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into Kuwait on Aug. 19. The U.S. combat mission in Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom – is scheduled to end Aug. 31. But the […]

BY SHARON MARTIN Do you believe a woman has the right to choose what to do with her own body? If so, steer clear of...