To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Are You One Of The Chosen?
Time For A Real Mutiny
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are hauled from the field of battle, guess what? It was all so predictable. The safest thing to […]
Travel Etiquette
BY SUSAN ESTRICH The first time I ever got on an airplane – to fly from Boston to New York, around 1970 – I got all dressed up. Flying was a big deal. The airport was, I thought, one of the most glamorous places I’d ever been. There were all kinds of problems on that […]
The Mongoose Is Gone
EPA To California: Go For It!
BY FROMA HARROP Has the recent Republican sweep of the House doomed President Obama’s clean-energy agenda? Possibly. Has it doomed America’s? Hardly. It’s simply moved the center for enlightened environmental policy 2,840 miles to the west – to California, where it’s been before. That’s why the thumping Californians gave to Proposition 23 is so globally […]