BY SUSAN ESTRICH “We have only just begun,” Geraldine Ferraro wrote in inscribing a photograph to me after the 1984 campaign. I keep it above my desk, to remind myself that Rome wasn’t built in a day, that it takes courage and perseverance when you’re trying to change the world. Gerry looks impossibly young in […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middle-class jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about efficiency, as though that’s the highest value to which a civilization can aspire. Values aside, however, the problem with corporate efficiencies is that too often they are not. […]

BY FROMA HARROP Are conservatives right that our government has become overbearing? Is it true that the rights of the individual, enshrined at the dawn of the Republic and cried over by Glenn Beck, are being smashed by the modern state? One doesn’t have to be a conservative to list offensive government interventions. [I don’t […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I quit smoking 25 years ago. Before that, I had tried eight times, and each time I failed. Three things finally got me to quit, cold turkey, forever: My then husband, who hated the smell, the smoke, the whole nine yards of living with someone who can’t even tell when they are […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The war on Libya now being waged by the U.S., Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. Let’s start with the fierce hand-to-hand combat between members of the […]