BY JIM HIGHTOWER Oh, to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom! If you need a symbol of how America’s decade-long war is going in this faraway land, look no farther than the beautiful fields of red poppies flowering so bountifully there. Unfortunately, that bounty symbolizes a failure of an ambitious Western […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH No one told me that January is the wrong time to visit Normandy [until afterwards, that is]. Most of the places we went to visit were closed. It was cold and wet and rainy. It took more than three hours each way. But I haven’t been to France in 15 years, and […]

BY WANDA JO STAPLETON I watched with interest the recent presidential debates in New Hampshire as candidates pandered to extreme right-wingers. First, Mitt Romney dodged questions...

BY FROMA HARROP Let’s set aside the back-and-forth over the recess appointment of Richard Cordray as chief watchdog at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. President Obama named the former Ohio attorney general to lead the agency when the Senate was supposedly out of session, which he’s allowed to do. Republicans refuse to confirm him […]

BY SHARON MARTIN This month, in a Rasmussen poll of 3,000 likely voters, less than one quarter of those polled said this country was...