BY JOE CONASON By all accounts, Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet decided whether to seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. But the prospect of her candidacy, combined with her undeniable popularity, is agitating certain commentators so deeply that they simply cannot withhold their bile. Consider the reaction of David Frum, a former Bush White […]

BY SHARON MARTIN In the newspaper recently was the face, a mug shot, of a former student. He’d been arrested for an alleged armed robbery....

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Wall Street is a beast. And proud of it! In fact, a pair of animals are the stock market’s longtime symbols: One is a snorting bull, representing surging stock prices; the other is a bear, representing a down market devouring stock value. But I recently received a letter from a creative fellow […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH If you were to ask me who inspired me to become a lawyer, two people would jump to mind. The first, not surprisingly, was my father, a sole practitioner in Lynn, MS, who never made any money but loved his work, not only because it was intellectually challenging, but also because he […]

BY KENNETH WELLS We need Democrats, both progressive and moderate, to come back to the party and participate at all party levels. For too long,...