BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Surely Rick Santorum is the most fanatical Christian to run for the Republican nomination in the modern era, maybe any era. Next to him, Pat Robertson, billionaire founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, who ran for the nomination in 1988, has the tolerant, glassy-eyed bonhomie of Dean Martin. Robertson has always been […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH The news from Sloan Kettering that colonoscopy measurably saves lives will certainly make me feel better when I start drinking the liquid the night before mine. But really, what my doctors have been telling me from their own experience is why, as much as I hate doing it, I’m pretty religious about […]

BY JOE CONASON Rumors and whispers of a late presidential bid by Jeb Bush are difficult to consider seriously – if only because the deadlines to enter primary contests have past, the necessary money and campaign staff are not in place, and the mechanisms for a “brokered convention” do not exist. And yet some worried […]

BY FROMA HARROP It’s a good thing that the Margaret Thatcher we remember isn’t running for president as a Republican. A conservative icon, she would nonetheless be tarred today as a “big government liberal,” “raiser of taxes,” “European socialist” and RINO, which stands for Republican in Name Only. The biographical movie Iron Lady centers on […]

BY KAREN WEBB Be prepared. The GOP is going full force after the right to vote of anyone who doesn't have a photo ID whether...