BY FROMA HARROP Flip the calendar pages – as they do in the old movies to show passage of time – and stop at Nov. 2, 2010. That will be Election Day. How Congress handles health care reform will influence which party gets to party that night. Democrats should remember that this is the only […]

BY FROMA HARROP They called him “The Liberal Lion.” Ted Kennedy deserved that title, though with some asterisks added. There’s no reconciling Kennedy worshippers with the Kennedy haters. But those who can deal with shades of gray will pay tribute to the legendary Massachusetts senator who championed landmark legislation through bipartisan cooperation – but whose […]

BY JOE CONASON Predictably as always, the Republicans in Congress and in the conservative media are berating Attorney General Eric Holder for deciding to investigate the CIA’s use of abusive interrogation methods on terror suspects. They warn that probing this sensitive history will compromise intelligence operations and endanger the nation. They insist that these techniques […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH He was not a natural. He did not have the gift that Bill Clinton had, that Barack Obama has, the gift of making whatever he said sound smart and moving. The first time I wrote “talking points” for him, for a floor statement on something 30 years ago next week, I hid […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER “Hey, Hey, what do you say? Make some noise, seize the day!” Protests are back! All across America, angry demonstrations are popping up like mushrooms on moldy Astroturf. Similar to the plastic “grass,” political astroturf is the corporate version of grassroots – instead of ordinary citizens organizing and mobilizing themselves for political […]