BY JAMES NIMMO There has been much constructive talk, as well as arm-chair quarterback-style blogging and blathering in conjunction with California's Prop 8 trial ...

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It’s impossible to read the agenda for the Oval Office summit between Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas without laughing out loud at the absurdity of its pretensions. The American plan is that President Obama will inform Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, representing the Palestinian Authority, that this is make-or-break time for […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH That was the headline on Thursday’s Drudge Report. And it is as good a summary as any of what happened Wednesday night when incumbent California Sen. Barbara Boxer met her challenger, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, in their first debate. By all measures, Boxer should be vulnerable. She is a liberal. No […]

BY FROMA HARROP Over a century ago, William Jennings Bryan presided over mass rallies of mostly middle-class Americans angry about economic inequities. The Tea Party activists gathered in Washington last weekend for Glenn Beck’s event shared similar concerns. Both leaders framed their populist mission in Christian terms. But Bryan’s people knew the source of their […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them. They’re knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufacturing jobs to high tech, reducing full-time work to part-time, downsizing our workplaces, busting unions, cutting health care coverage and canceling pensions – while also lobbying […]