BY NATHANIEL BATCHELDER Oklahoma State Sen. Josh Brecheen, R-Coalgate, announced in the Durant Daily Democrat that he will introduce a bill calling for fair presentation...

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Nicely in time for the end-of-year job ratings, President Obama has crawled from the political graveyard, where only a month ago wreaths were being heaped around his sepulcher. The official press commentariat now gravely applauds his recent victories in the U.S. Congress: repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” inhibitions on gays […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Our society is a bit strange. We go from almost a laissez-faire attitude, or a benign admonition, to criminalizing or quite...

BY FROMA HARROP The analyses of the new census numbers were predictable, and I take issue with nearly every one. Let’s start with the suggestion that population rising at the lowest rate since the Great Depression is to be lamented. Anything likened to the Great Depression can’t be a positive development, right? Wrong. But this […]

BY JOE CONASON To understand the depths of shame and cynicism in the partisan stalling of health legislation for 9/11 first responders, it is only necessary to recall how eagerly Republican politicians once rushed to identify themselves with New York City’s finest and bravest. Nothing was easier, during the months and years that followed the […]