To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Crimes Without Punishment
BY JOE CONASON With the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the use of torture by the CIA after 9/11, the final defense of the indefensible by its perpetrators, advocates and publicists is falling apart before our eyes. Not only did “enhanced interrogation,” the Nazi euphemism adopted by the Bush-Cheney Administration, […]
The Pain Of Inequality Among Yacht Buyers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER In this season of mass commercialism, let’s pause to consider the plight of simple millionaires. Why? Because we now share a common cause: Inequality. You don’t hear much about it, but millionaires are suffering a wealth gap, too, and it’s having a depressing impact on both their level of consumption and their […]
Make Rape Identities Public
BY FROMA HARROP Jackie’s shocking account of gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house has been growing holes by the day. And it has put Rolling Stone – the magazine that published it without identifying the accuser, the friends she quoted or the alleged rapists – under a harsh light. It only named […]
Are Americans Turning Post-Materialistic?
BY FROMA HARROP In 1916, Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia sponsored a children’s parade with heralds, a brass band, Jack the Giant Killer, clowns, girls as snowflakes, boys as silver stars and Santa Claus transported by four Eskimos to his throne in the Royal Red Theater – every morning it was open during the Christmas season. […]
The Unfair Scapegoating Of ObamaCare
BY JILL LAWRENCE Barring a Christmas miracle that saves Sen. Mary Landrieu’s job, the Democratic disappearing act in the South is about to claim another casualty. The Republican tide, expected to net a new senator in Louisiana’s runoff election this weekend, brings to mind Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s rueful remark after he signed the 1964 Civil […]