BY SUSAN ESTRICH I discovered Bob Novak when I was in college. My political science teacher assigned us Rowland Evans and Robert Novak’s classic tomes Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power [1966] and Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power [1971]. It was like giving the Bible on baseball to a kid […]

BY FROMA HARROP Craig Anthony Miller earned brief fame by screaming something about the Constitution in the face of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter. A woman followed with the same scripted rant. The subject of the meeting in Lebanon, PA, was to be health care, and the goal of the organized mobs was to disrupt it. […]

BY JOE CONASON When Republican politicians and right-wing talking heads bemoan the fictitious “death panels” that they claim would arise from health-care reform, they are concealing a sinister reality from their followers. The ugly fact is that every year we fail to reform the existing system, that failure condemns tens of thousands of people to […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH She was the candidate’s sister, the former president’s sister, the wife of the former vice presidential candidate. Legend had it that she was smarter than any of them. I was nobody, 25, working on my first presidential campaign, the senior and junior woman in almost every meeting. I was, for want of […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER There’s a joke going around that Starbucks has so saturated the coffee market that it is now opening new Starbucks stores inside its old stores. Well, not quite – not yet – but the corporate coffee colossus is presently trying to expand through an equally bizarre marketing strategy: By disowning its globally […]