BY FROMA HARROP My, how you’ve changed, Big Brother. What happened to the sourpuss in 1984, George Orwell’s grim novel about a thought-controlled future? Gone are the piercing eyes and the perennial threat: “Big Brother is Watching.” You’ve had quite the fashion update. I like how you dress in T-shirts and sweats, just like the […]

BY RALPH NADER I often ask Congressional Democrats these days is: "If you agree that your Republican counterparts in Congress are the most craven, corporatist,...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Early last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire: “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! To rebuild our middle class, we need to put […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Tuesday’s ruling by a panel of three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holding unconstitutional the California ballot initiative that aimed to take the right to marry away from same-sex couples is hardly the last word in the debate. The court’s ruling, unlike that of the […]

BY CLAUDIA SWISHER “Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.” – Bertolt Brecht, German writer I want to talk about heroes … those people...