BY JIM HIGHTOWER Warning: Agribusiness is in the lab again, molesting the “molecular machineries” of Mother Nature’s tomatoes. Actually, it’s the already-machined, industrial tomato that lab techs are retinkering. It seems that big produce peddlers have discovered that their red, perfectly-round, tomato-looking fruits are so flavorless as to constitute consumer fraud. Of course, tomato lovers […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It’s not often that you can turn what looks like a foreign policy disaster into an international triumph. But President Barack Obama, who has had his share of bad days, caught some luck this week. Maybe Secretary of State John Kerry was just tripping over his words when he suggested that there […]

BY FROMA HARROP The weekend obits toasted two American originals who died in their 90s. Both dedicated their many hours to preserving bygone technologies – in one case typewriters and in the other vinyl records. Both would have closed shop sooner were it not for young hipsters, raised on the digital, seeing novelty and beauty […]

BY SHARON MARTIN Maybe it was off the cuff, or maybe it was a calculated proposal, but I listened to the idea that there is...

BY SHARON MARTIN There is something fishy going on with education standards. It’s not Common Core, which is mostly common sense. And it’s not a...