BY SHARON MARTIN Democracy depends on educated citizens. Attacks on public education are an attack on democracy itself. There is an organization in Oklahoma whose job...

BY FROMA HARROP To many New Englanders, Olympia Snowe had come to resemble Marilyn of The Munsters TV family. The senator from Maine seemed a normal Northeast Republican surrounded by party leaders sprouting fangs and cooing at bats – but who regarded her as the odd one. “You can’t be too careful these days,” Herman Munster, […]

BY JOE CONASON When President Obama disparaged “loose talk about war” against the theocratic regime in Tehran, he wasn’t minimizing the consequences of atomic weapons in the hands of the mullahs. The danger of terrorists acquiring a bomb would be multiplied by a regional arms race. The international nonproliferation regime would be crippled if not […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Where's Woody when we need him? In these times of tinkle-down economics – with the money powers thinking that they're the top dogs...

BY FROMA HARROP Too bad the Republican candidates had to comment on Rush Limbaugh’s flaming attack on a female law student at Georgetown University. El Rushbo plays troubadour to the party’s right wing from his home in its entertainment wing. The business of the entertainment wing is show business. That means making money off talk […]