BY CARL RUBENSTEIN For Oklahoma to reject the Medicaid expansion funding is to deny access to medical care to thousands of needy Oklahomans, many of...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER As we enjoy the traditional holiday season of food-centered celebrations, let’s not only consume, but also reflect on, discuss and consider, what we can do to shape our food future. We’re presented with two starkly different visions of that future: the industrialized, conglomeratized, globalized, monopolized, plasticized and heavily subsidized vision of Agri-business, […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH In the wake of the Newtown, CT, tragedy, every politician who has me on their e-mail list – and there are many, on both sides of the aisle – has been filling my inbox. All of the messages begin with the requisite expression of shock and horror, the business of sending out […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER There is a dynamic with such events as Friday’s massacre in Newtown, CT. We as a nation have been imprinted with...

BY FROMA HARROP The usual gun extremists largely went into hiding this weekend after the obscenity in Connecticut. The National Rifle Association offered only a flowery expression of sympathy for the victims. Real brave, aren’t they? One foe of gun control who did speak out was Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican. He said the […]