BY FROMA HARROP Since I was a wee pill-popper, I’ve taken more vitamins and other supplements than I care to admit. If over the years I’d invested that money in an S&P 500 stock fund … oh, well. Now we learn that most of those oils, minerals, exotic fruit extracts and herbs don’t help us […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER A year from now, Americans will be caught in an unprecedented blizzard of presidential campaign ads. We’ll be blinded by the whiteout and buried in the storm’s negativity. For the first time ever, most of this ad blizzard will not come from the candidates, but from ads secretly funded by huge corporations. […]

BY BARBARA SANTEE The first presidential campaign I ever worked on was for John F. Kennedy. Since then, I have been through a lot of...

BY FROMA HARROP Hard to believe, but once upon a time, economists worried that the U.S. government would pay off all its debt. Also hard to believe, once upon a time was only 11 years ago. President Clinton had bequeathed his successor budget surpluses “as far as the eye could see.” He wanted some of […]

BY SHARON MARTIN If you have a strong lobby and money to contribute to political campaigns, there is probably a tax break with your name...