BY FROMA HARROP The blowup at Susan G. Komen for the Cure set off a political alarm that Republicans dare not ignore. The leading breast cancer group, Komen tried playing Republican-base politics by cutting its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast-health services. The sisterhood and its allies exploded, and Komen reversed course with abject apologies. […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Any devotee of the national pastime knows baseball is a game of numbers. So, it seems, is the Republican quest for...

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Fifty years ago, a group of students in the American Midwest issued a document rather portentously titled “The Port Huron Statement.” It was the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society and became one of the most famous documents of that momentous and creative decade. Read any history of the upsurges […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH If the goal of the primary process is simply to nominate a candidate, essentially to nominate the man or woman most likely to win in the end, then this primary season should be declared over. Clear the stage, and give it to Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich’s promise to go the next 46 […]

BY RALPH NADER Looking at millions of individual bills that make up the $2.7 trillion of annual health care costs opens a gigantic window on...