To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Bad Old Days: How Lewinsky Deserves To Be Remembered
BY JOE CONASON Monica Lewinsky must be satisfied to learn that with a few stylish photographs and a few innocuous paragraphs, she can still discombobulate Maureen Dowd, Lynne Cheney and a swarm of demented figures in American politics and media. Few could resist the chance to reminisce about the tapes, the blue dress, the cigars, […]
Campus Rape Victims Should Be Dialing 911
BY FROMA HARROP If a 19-year-old high-school dropout raped by her ex-boyfriend wants justice, she calls the police. The same should apply to a 19-year-old college freshman similarly attacked by another student. But it doesn’t apply nearly enough. Colleges have let themselves become arbiters of violent crime. They have no business being in that business. […]
Grotesque
BY SUSAN ESTRICH That’s what the Simon Wiesenthal Center called the assignment given to eighth-grade students in Rialto, CA, to research and write an argumentative essay about whether the Holocaust actually happened or was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.” Who came up with this assignment? Apparently, it was […]
Corporate Lobbyists Challenged By A Growing ‘Populist Lobby’
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Imagine a bold headline blaring, “An Army of 1,500 Lobbyists Swarms Capitol Hill.” But that wouldn’t be news, since it happens every day. In fact, an occupying army of Gucci-clad corporate lobbyists is permanently encamped in Washington, numbering not a mere 1,500 – but more than 12,000. Yes, that works out to […]
In Drought, Fortunes Are Made
BY FROMA HARROP BAKERSFIELD, CA – This summer, even drinking water may be hard to find in some central California towns. This region is in its third year of drought, among the worst in recorded history. Yet agribusinesses are planting huge new groves of thirsty almond and pistachio trees. Bear in mind, these are permanent […]
