BY JOE CONASON While the leaders of the world’s largest economies debate stimulus and regulation in London, let us hope they do not forget about crime and punishment. Rooted in the most massive swindles in financial history, the global crisis offers an unprecedented opportunity to prosecute the criminals whose machinations steered us toward disaster – […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH He might be nervous and insecure. After all, he’s got the biggest, hardest job in the world. It’s not like he’s been preparing for it all his life; nine years ago he was commuting between Chicago and Springfield, IL. It’s not like he inherited peace and prosperity; he inherited recession, misery and […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER As skiers and backcountry hikers know, a whiteout is a blizzard that’s so intense that those caught in it can’t even see the blizzard. That’s how I think of the Wall Street bailout now swirling around us. So many trillions of our tax dollars are being blown at the financial giants that […]

BY FROMA HARROP Many conservatives think they’ve found a winner in tarring President Obama and his allies as “socialists.” Earnest attempts to explain why “it isn’t so” are futile, as is asking people what the heck they mean when they say raising taxes is “socialism.” In a heroic effort to force a definition into the […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH What’s Bill O’Reilly doing at a benefit for rape victims and their families? Helping them raise money. Last time I checked, that’s a good thing. I disagree with much of what Bill has to say on most subjects. I think he feels the same way about me. That’s fine. But he happens […]