BY SHARON MARTIN When the economy flounders, the people are asked to go shopping. Workers are asked to be more productive, for the same amount...

BY RALPH NADER From New York City to Oakland, and several cities in between, the police, on orders from city officials, have smashed the Occupy...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH When I was a kid, Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday. We shivered in the stands during the big game against the Big Blue, and our longstanding losing streak didn’t matter. By the time I was a junior, I sat in the first row wearing a short skirt. I may be the […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Make this Thanksgiving an occasion to celebrate our country’s food rebels! Yes, rebels. People who dare to challenge the conventional wisdom and try to find a better way for doing something, even with the odds against them and the Powers That Be saying it won’t work. In this case, I’m talking about […]

BY FROMA HARROP “Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs” is the presumptuous headline on a Bloomberg Businessweek cover. The subject is Alabama’s new no-tolerance policy toward illegal immigrants and the people who hire them. As expected, the law has caused an exodus of undocumented workers from Alabama, depriving fish-processors, farmers and other businesses of hands […]