To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Leaving Home
BY SUSAN ESTRICH For the past two weeks, I’ve been traveling across the country interviewing law students who have applied for jobs at my law firm. I talk to young people from New York who want to be in California, and to young people from California who want to be in New York. Some days, […]
Democrats Made Their Own Lumpy Bed
BY FROMA HARROP “Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near,” reads a headline in The Washington Post. It’s long been clear that if Democrats had been less afraid, they’d have less to be afraid of now. Case in point was the brawl over health care, which a timid President Obama let go on […]
War Without End?
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The last American combat brigade in Iraq has left the country, so the Pentagon has announced. The 40,000 personnel from 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing into Kuwait on Aug. 19. The U.S. combat mission in Iraq – Operation Iraqi Freedom – is scheduled to end Aug. 31. But the […]
The Convent At Auschwitz
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Recently, I found myself on Fox News defending the “Ground Zero mosque” before I’d fully thought it through. Truth be told, when someone called to set up the “hit,” I thought they were talking about another mosque project I’d heard about on the radio. So there I was, invoking the First Amendment, […]
Courage And Lower Manhattan
BY JOE CONASON Nothing tests a president like standing up against a wave of fear and prejudice, even at potentially great cost to his own party and prospects. That is what Lyndon Baines Johnson did when he signed the civil rights acts he knew would forfeit the South to the Republicans for a generation or […]
