BY JIM HIGHTOWER Thank you, Scott Walker! And you, too, Charles and David Koch! Thanks for being so ham-handed in pushing your self-serving, virulently anti-union agenda on the schoolteachers, health care workers, park rangers and other public employees of Wisconsin. The Birchite billionaire Koch brothers and Walker, their gubernatorial hatchet man in the Badger State, […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Who cares about the Oscars? Not quite as many people as last year, it turns out, but more than the two years preceding that, at least as measured by the ratings for the ABC telecast. Of course, Twitter was twittering at full speed, there were sizeable bumps in Internet traffic, the red-carpet […]

BY FROMA HARROP Though I deem myself a sort-of liberal, I don’t closely read the left-wing magazine The Nation. Its views don’t budge for decades at a time, so one can get by just checking in now and then. Case in point is a recent analysis of the gap between rich and poor in that […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD During the early part of this writer’s two decades of retirement, he accepted state leadership positions with the Oklahoma Retired Educators’...