BY RICHARD L. FRICKER The swearing in is over, the ball gowns have been put away into the trunk of yesterday, it is time to...

BY FROMA HARROP Open-access people, meet the copyright laws. Much has been written about Aaron Swartz, the computer genius who killed himself after being charged with a variety of cybercrimes. Some ardent friends accuse the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of having cruelly called in the police to deal with him. By then, MIT had foiled […]

BY RALPH NADER An open letter to Mike Duke, CEO, Walmart Corp., Bentonville, AR: Walmart, your gigantic company, is increasingly being challenged by your workers, government...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH In the days before the re-inauguration of President Obama, there have been the usual curtain raisers, with the usual suspects screaming from their respective corners about the usual stuff. And then there have been interviews with “real” people. I was listening to NPR on Wednesday night; they stationed a reporter outside the […]

BY JOE CONASON A prolonged confrontation over the nation’s debt ceiling – unlike the “fiscal cliff,” which provoked many scary headlines – could truly be grave for both America and the world. While press coverage often mentions the possibility of lowered credit ratings for the U.S. Treasury [again], that might only be the mildest consequence […]