BY FROMA HARROP If you don’t already know about the Kardashian sisters, you probably don’t want to know. Kourtney, Kim and Khloe have grown very rich dressing like tramps and otherwise exhibiting themselves, including sessions on the toilet [viewable on their E! channel program, Keeping up With the Kardashians]. When not sharing their gynecological concerns […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Was it only a month ago that the chattering class was writing off the president as being almost as thoroughly defeated as the lame duck Congress, as the failed leader who had lost his way, popularity plummeting, accomplishments vulnerable? Insiders worried about who was up next. How much worse could it get? […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Nicely in time for the end-of-year job ratings, President Obama has crawled from the political graveyard, where only a month ago wreaths were being heaped around his sepulcher. The official press commentariat now gravely applauds his recent victories in the U.S. Congress: repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” inhibitions on gays […]

BY FROMA HARROP The analyses of the new census numbers were predictable, and I take issue with nearly every one. Let’s start with the suggestion that population rising at the lowest rate since the Great Depression is to be lamented. Anything likened to the Great Depression can’t be a positive development, right? Wrong. But this […]

BY JOE CONASON To understand the depths of shame and cynicism in the partisan stalling of health legislation for 9/11 first responders, it is only necessary to recall how eagerly Republican politicians once rushed to identify themselves with New York City’s finest and bravest. Nothing was easier, during the months and years that followed the […]