To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Real JetBlue Heroes
BY FROMA HARROP The JetBlue flight attendant who theatrically quit his job by cursing out a “rude” passenger and exiting via an emergency slide has become a working-class hero to many. But Steven Slater’s story didn’t hold up for long. It now appears that the gash allegedly caused by someone slamming an overhead bin into […]
Birth Days, Death Days
BY SUSAN ESTRICH My friend Kath would have turned 60 this week. I only know that because when she was in the hospital last spring, they kept asking for her date of birth before administering medicine, and the answer was 8-12-50. The 8-12 I knew. But to see her, she didn’t even look 50, much […]
The Racists Return
BY JOE CONASON Among the most revealing aspects of life during the Obama presidency is the panoply of responses to a black family in the White House. What made so many of us proud of our country on Jan. 20, 2009, has increasingly provoked expressions of hatred from the far right. That is troubling, but […]
Regulation Made Canada Fat And Happy
BY FROMA HARROP Suppose the U.S. government had posted a budget surplus in 12 of the past 13 years. Suppose not a single major American financial institution had failed or needed a government bailout. Suppose the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 6.1% in the first quarter of this year, rather than at […]
New Outrages Keep Gushing From BP
BY JIM HIGHTOWER With BP’s well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now comes this: prison labor. In its national PR blitz to buff up its image, the oil giant has loudly been boasting that it […]
