BY JIM HIGHTOWER At last, after weeks of analyzing, calculating, pondering, consulting and crafting, Democratic leaders in Washington have unveiled their much-awaited legislative response to the Supreme Court’s January decision in the infamous case of Citizens United. That’s the destructive dictate that allows oceans of corporate cash to flood America’s elections and drown out the […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH What do you say when your best friend lies dying? That she was brilliant and beautiful and loving and sweet. That she was way too young. That we had this deal, this deal we made years ago, that if anything happened, we would take care of each other. That I didn’t. Oh, […]

BY FROMA HARROP The candidates subject themselves to all those boring chicken dinners, weekends on the road and having to flatter unpleasant people. Their campaign workers, contributors and media friends struggle to pull them over the finish line. The politicians taste victory, or at least a commanding lead in the polls, and – boom! They […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It’s been an active year so far in the rhetoric of nuclear disarmament. First, the “nuclear posture statement” of the Obama Administration put out in early April. Then the non-proliferation meetings, then the START negotiations with the Russians. What do they add up to, in terms of material reduction of the threat […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Reasonable people can disagree about whether Mexico’s president should criticize the Arizona legislature in front of a joint session of Congress. What he said was nothing new. Whether it was good manners to say it [as if the Capitol is the home of good manners] is something else. But nearly everyone stood […]