To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Where They Play, Rich Conservatives Like Zoning
BY FROMA HARROP The weekend’s memorable photo is of Mitt Romney driving his massive powerboat past a privately built castle, not unlike his own, on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. On Sunday, he moseyed across the Long Island Sound to the beachy pleasure dome of billionaire conservative David Koch, in Southampton, NY – for a $75,000-a-couple […]
Right-Sizing Government
‘No War On Iran’
Epitaph To A Dead Movement
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It was very hard not to be swept away by the Occupy movement, which established itself in New York’s Zuccotti Park last September and soon spread to Oakland, Chicago, London and Madrid. And indeed most people didn’t resist its allure. Leninists threw aside their Marxist primers on party organization and drained the […]