BY FROMA HARROP Beats me how new apps like “Secret” and “Whisper” are going to make big money. Presumably, that is the objective of their Silicon Valley creators. These apps combine social networking with anonymity. “Secret,” for example, lets people post anonymous messages to those on their contact list who’ve also signed on with “Secret.” […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Nothing, right? For much of my professional life, I yearned for an opportunity to be judged on the basis of my accomplishments, without regard to factors such as race or sex. In my version of the American dream, the country was a meritocracy that allowed you to succeed even if your mother […]

BY KATIE FRETLAND Oklahoma’s inability to find regulated forms of lethal injection drugs has prompted postponements of two executions that had been planned for...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Mass movements don’t just appear out of the fog, fully grown, structured and mobilized. They emerge in fits and starts over many years, just as the American Revolution did, and as did the Populists’ original idea of a “cooperative commonwealth.” A successful people’s movement has to take the long view, to learn about […]

BY DON NELSON Is it just me or has anyone else noted that all of the GOP pre-campaign/pre-election political adds seem behind the times? T.W. Shannon...