BY SUSAN ESTRICH When I was in seventh grade, I was the only girl on the junior high math team. I wasn’t the best, and I wasn’t the worst. But the experience of standing out in such an obvious way – the loneliness, the geekiness, the sitting alone on the bus, all of it combined […]

BY FROMA HARROP Colorado’s Arkansas River is a masterpiece. Crafted by the Creator, it is a natural work of art that needs no improvement. That a ludicrous proposal to cover 42 miles of it with 120-foot-wide fabric has gotten as far as it has speaks to the marketing genius of showman-artist “Christo.” Bulgarian-born Christo Javacheff […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN By the end of this week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to toss those Qurans in the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them […]

BY JOE CONASON Among the very puzzling aspects of the midterm election – and the Democratic debacle that appears to be looming in November – is why voters would return the opposition to power only two years after the multiple disasters of the Bush Administration. They know that the years of Republican dominance in Washington […]

BY FROMA HARROP Let’s cut the baloney about jobs and rich people’s taxes. If corporate profits automatically turned into jobs for the little folk, the unemployment rate would be plummeting. It happens that company earnings now exceed their lofty peaks of the housing boom. And big-business balance sheets are sloshing in cash. Corporate America’s decision […]