BY FROMA HARROP Let’s cut the baloney about jobs and rich people’s taxes. If corporate profits automatically turned into jobs for the little folk, the unemployment rate would be plummeting. It happens that company earnings now exceed their lofty peaks of the housing boom. And big-business balance sheets are sloshing in cash. Corporate America’s decision […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Glenn Beck, the rightwing egomaniac prophet from Fox News, has been up to something that might have been good if sponsored...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER There’s a difference between being paranoid and being suspicious. Paranoia is mental disturbance; suspicion is a rational deduction. For example, if you suspect that America’s economy, politics, government, media, judiciary and practically every other system has been wired to favor corporate interests over every other interest in our country, you’re deducing, not […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Here’s a really bad idea: Burn the Koran to send a message. Exactly what message is being sent is a matter of some debate. The 50-member “Dove World Outreach Center” and its pastor, Terry Jones, claim that “it’s maybe the right time for America to stand up. How long are we going […]

BY FROMA HARROP Professional partisans see every race as a mark on their team’s scoreboard. But these activists err in treating the win of a state governorship and U.S. Senate seat as similar victories. Voters might care which party runs Congress, but why would they fret over whether their state’s chief executive is a Republican, […]