BY FROMA HARROP Let’s start with the assumption that America is not a Third World country. In poor countries, many people never see doctors. Only the elite go to college. Rattletrap trains take two hours to go 70 miles. Visit the Third World, and you see a struggling middle class shoehorned between shanty-town poverty and […]

BY KAREN WEBB “This initiative is aimed at getting the 99% of the U.S. population that are not a part of the military to offer...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It’s that time of year again, the time of year when high school seniors who have done everything right their whole lives discover that it wasn’t good enough to get them into the colleges they dreamed of attending. Ditto for college seniors applying to graduate school. If you got into your first-choice […]

BY JOE CONASON Having hesitated to fully enter the fiscal fray, President Obama has at last delivered a plausible, principled response to the budgetary flim-flams of the far right. But one speech, even a very good speech, won’t fulfill his obligation in this fateful argument. What Obama began to do this week is what Democrats […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The Libyan rebels are learning that “no-fly zone” can translate in practice into lethal onslaughts in which NATO planes have killed or wounded at least a score of their number. Civilians in Tripoli have also died in large numbers from aerial onslaughts by NATO planes. There’s no evidence that the missions flown […]