BY JOE CONASON The latest signals from the White House suggest that President Obama now realizes he must do more – and quickly – to ease the economic suffering of working families. He knows that most Americans believe his administration and Congress have so far provided more help to major banks and Wall Street investment […]

BY FROMA HARROP In terms of health coverage, one date separates the most secure Americans from the least secure: a person’s 65th birthday. Age 65 is when one qualifies for Medicare, the government insurance program for the elderly and disabled. It’s become a source of intergenerational strife – not so much between the old and […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER America’s shouting match over health care reform has turned completely goofy – and I’m not talking about confused seniors at teabag rallies getting red-faced with anger after being told by the right-wing scare machine that “government is trying to taker over Medicare.” No, I’m talking about our United States senators. Take Max […]

BY FROMA HARROP What you need to know about Michael C. Finton is that he parked a van in front of a federal building in Springfield, IL, believing it was loaded with explosives. He then twice made cell phone calls that he thought would detonate the bombs. Finton never made contact with any real al-Qaeda […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH My friend Nancy began her last adventure when the doctors at an upstate New York hospital told her there was no way she could get on a plane to come home to Los Angeles [the altitude would kill her] and instead proposed to transfer her to a New York City hospital for […]