BY JIM HIGHTOWER It’s out! This year’s list of American success stories has just been published, and according to its compiler, it “instills confidence that the American dream is still very much alive.” Maybe you are one of these success stories. You might be a great public school teacher, for example, who motivated students to […]

BY DANNY M. ADKISON It was hard to watch. Did you see that presidential debate? Can anyone explain Obama’s performance? One would have thought, given...

BY FROMA HARROP It can’t be by accident that Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs made the Sunday talk-show rounds using the word “masterful” to describe Mitt Romney’s performance at the presidential debate. True, President Obama looked tired, while Romney was brimming with old ideas. But Romney’s master-of-the-universe act was not universally admired. It will be […]

BY JOE CONASON “It’s not easy to debate a liar,” complained an e-mail from one observer of the first presidential debate – and there was no question about which candidate he meant. Prevarication, falsification, fabrication are all familiar tactics that have been employed by Mitt Romney without much consequence to him ever since he entered […]

BY SHARON MARTIN If you’ve ever played the game of Risk, you know diplomacy wins the game. You stake out your borders, make friends with...