BY FROMA HARROP The alternative to a government rescue of General Motors is the collapse of the industrial Midwest. Nonetheless, there’s been a surprisingly large amount of dumping on the Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan. The government-sponsored deal seems to have stirred up resentments for every ideology. From the left, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich asks […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I have hated graduations for most of my life. High school was my best, and it wasn’t great: I lost out as valedictorian by one-tenth of a point, and the guys who finished third and fourth behind me both got into Harvard and I didn’t. I was heading off to my last […]

BY JOE CONASON If right-wing broadcasters don’t want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly – as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead in his Wichita, KS, church by an anti-abortion zealot – then they ought to moderate their rhetoric. No doubt they will choose their […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH “What I have no interest in doing is running GM,” President Barack Obama said on Monday, as he assumed ownership of the beacon of free enterprise. “The era of big government is over,” then-President Bill Clinton famously declared, and even if no one believed it, virtually everyone thought it a very politic […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Obama spaketh, and it was good: “We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains,” he proclaimed. And, yea, in the mountains and down through all the valleys of the ancient land of Appalachia, hearts were filled with joy, for here was a […]