BY SUSAN ESTRICH It was just at this time in 2003 – on Dec. 9, to be exact – that former Vice President Al Gore endorsed insurgent candidate Howard Dean, making him the official frontrunner and nominee-apparent in the Democratic race for the president. Looking back, many people said the endorsement was the kiss of […]

BY RALPH NADER The battered national consensus behind a national universal postal service – conceived by Benjamin Franklin – is heading for a free fall...

BY FROMA HARROP Liberals and conservatives both seem obsessed with the behavior of “the 1%,” but there the similarity ends. Liberals seek to change the ways of the richest 1%, while many conservatives focus on the bottom 1%. The latter was on display as Republican Newt Gingrich proposed having poor young people clean their schools. […]

BY SHEILA SAMPLES "Oh, big conniver, nothing but a jiver, done got hip to your jive, Slippin' and a slidin', peepin' and a hidin', won't be...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Mea culpa, I misspoke, my bad – I stand corrected. In past commentaries, I have called Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though he has indeed gotten very wealthy by taking big bucks from such special interest outfits as IBM, AstraZeneca, Microsoft and Siemens in exchange for helping […]