BY JIM HIGHTOWER With BP’s well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now comes this: prison labor. In its national PR blitz to buff up its image, the oil giant has loudly been boasting that it […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH That’s what the ads used to say, back in the day when air travel was considered glamorous, stewardesses were required to be young, slim and beautiful, and people actually “dressed” to take a plane. As for me, I thought it was glamorous just to go to the airport, much less get on […]

BY FROMA HARROP I voted for the guy to be president in 2004, but I never much cared for Sen. John Kerry. So to my conservative friends now mocking the Massachusetts liberal for having saved $500,000 in taxes by docking his $7 million yacht in Rhode Island, I say, “Have fun.” But only to a […]

BY JAMES NIMMO From the smallest crossroads, one-stop-light town to the largest state in the American union, religion has stood in the municipal-legislative door to...

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN A gay Republican federal judge of libertarian leanings, Vaughn R. Walker, struck down California’s ban on gay marriage on Wednesday, prompting ecstatic rejoicing among a mostly gay crowd outside the U.S. district courthouse in San Francisco. His ruling was the first in the country to strike down a marriage ban on federal […]