BY FROMA HARROP We may be getting ahead of ourselves assuming that Hillary Clinton will be next president, but let’s proceed on that [comforting] notion. Few are better prepared to preserve and improve upon the Affordable Care Act than Clinton, who’s long immersed herself in health care policy. ObamaCare is complicated – built that way […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN When my cousin and his classmates went to Vietnam in the 1960s, the government felt like he was old enough to fight,...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Some corporations engage in such abusive consumer rip-offs that they’re just plain evil. But then there are some profiteers that dig even deeper into the dark void of their corporate souls to achieve the ultimate status: truly evil. Consider the gang of debt collection firms that are thugglishly and lawlessly rampaging across […]

BY BRIAN RENEGAR I find it interesting that over the last three years the Legislature and the governor have crafted a budget on one-time appropriated...

BY JOE CONASON “Country first.” That was the patriotic slogan of John McCain’s presidential campaign eight years ago, uttered by the Arizona Republican to express a higher purpose than partisan, ideological or career motivations. Behind that brief phrase was the primacy of the nation – not necessarily above family or religion, perhaps, but certainly above […]