To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: July 2016
A Call For Honest News
Ginsburg v. Trump
BY SUSAN ESTRICH “I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in The New York Times this week. Trump responded in his usual unpresidential way, tweeting: “Justice Ginsburg has embarrassed all by making very […]
How To Make A Political Platform Progressive
BY JIM HIGHTOWER An old cowboy aphorism offers this advice: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse.” I relived this truism last weekend in Orlando, FL, where I spent two hot, muggy days wrangling over policy issues as one of the members of the Democratic Party’s national platform committee. Depending on the moment and […]
Paper Chase And The American Dream
Attack On Dallas Police Was Terrorism
BY FROMA HARROP The gunning down of five cops in Dallas was terrorism, pure and simple. The lunatic who did it framed his rampage as retaliation for police shootings of African-Americans. But these were not two sides of the same coin. They were different coins altogether. The early evidence suggests that the fatal confrontations in […]