BY JAMES NIMMO Can Oklahoma's citizens rouse themselves out of their obesity torpor? The Vermont House of Representatives recently passed a statewide health care plan by...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I quit smoking 25 years ago. Before that, I had tried eight times, and each time I failed. Three things finally got me to quit, cold turkey, forever: My then husband, who hated the smell, the smoke, the whole nine yards of living with someone who can’t even tell when they are […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The war on Libya now being waged by the U.S., Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. Let’s start with the fierce hand-to-hand combat between members of the […]

BY JOE CONASON Deciding whether to intervene in Libya, the United States and its allies confronted a terrible situation: the immediate imperative – to prevent a promised massacre by the country’s dictator, versus the many long-term reasons to stay away, from the uncertainty of success to the very question of what success would mean. On […]

BY FROMA HARROP When it comes to my sanity, the Tea Party often taketh away. I go nuts when they throw out huge sums to cut from budgets without getting into details. Ditto when they bash the scraps spent on poor children, then defend their plush Medicare benefits. Double ditto when they insist that they’ve […]