To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
A Bawdyhouse Of Bad Right-Wing Ideas
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Ideally, elections are about ideas. In our dark times of money-soaked, bitterly negative campaigns, however, policy discussions are being shoved aside by raw partisanship and vitriol. This not only means that good ideas are ignored, but also that downright bad ideas can become public policy without the public knowing it. For example, […]
Stop Obsessing Over Trump’s Insults
BY FROMA HARROP It’s getting harder by the day to tune in to MSNBC. My chief complaint isn’t the leftish slant. It’s the news channel’s obsession with the latest idiocy to emerge from the Trumpian yap. Anyone who wants to express dismay that Trump called a woman “Horseface” is certainly entitled to, but not on […]
No One’s Perfect
BY SUSAN ESTRICH As someone who has been trying to get a woman on the ticket since 1984, I’m glad that the Democratic Party has so many women stars, starting with Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. But in watching them both in action last week, I was pretty terrified, not for myself but for […]
Front-Porch Politics
BY JIM HIGHTOWER If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump worshippers, check out “The Promise of a Progressive Populist Movement”. This report is the work of People’s Action, a multiracial, grassroots coalition. This year, its volunteers knocked on […]
Khashoggi’s Demise Reveals Unpleasant Truths
BY JOE CONASON The apparent murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist and U.S. resident, should force Americans to confront unpleasant truths about the Saudi regime – and its enablers in the White House. Let’s understand first that there is nothing truly unusual about the Khashoggi crime, except for its location […]