BY KAREN WEBB An open letter to Rep. Tom Cole, Sen. James Inhofe, Sen. Tom Coburn and Rep. Paul Ryan: I can’t tell you how touched...

BY FROMA HARROP In 1954, E.B. White wrote a piece in The New Yorker about a hurricane hitting his part of Maine. The moment it left Boston, he notes in “The Eye of Edna,” the radio voices declared the violent storm over – even as it continued barreling toward the coast of Maine. When the […]

BY WANDA JO STAPLETON All four of Oklahoma’s Republican Congressmen got their wake-up call on Tuesday. That long-distance call came from upstate New York where...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do. A sleek car costing $100,000? Why, for them, that’s just an easy impulse purchase. A few million bucks for a Matisse original? Go ahead – it’ll liven up the hallway. […]

BY FROMA HARROP New polling by Rasmussen shows voters highly conflicted over which party to blame for our economic troubles and which is best able to end them. But Americans agree on one thing: The economy is lousy. And from that, we can reasonably deduce that they don’t want a lousier economy. Given such uncertainty, […]