BY SUSAN ESTRICH Ruth Bader Ginsburg is small in stature, but she has very big shoulders. Alongside a generation of women lawyers, I stand on them, with gratitude and pride. The news that the only woman on the United States Supreme Court has been hospitalized for surgery for pancreatic cancer brings an opportune moment to […]

BY FROMA HARROP Oh, it’s another sun-blessed, balmy day in Palm Beach County. Were it not for the foreclosures, collapse in tourism and Madoff scandal, all would seem perfect. Did I mention retailing? Dior on Worth Avenue vanished the day after Christmas. The Macy’s at the Palm Beach Mall closed several weeks later. Some distress […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Bankers have never been much loved, but gollies, this Wall Street bunch seems hell-bent on being loathed. As a consequence of their avaricious grab for outrageous personal enrichment during the past decade, these arrogant titans of financial gimmickry have caused a vast economic collapse that is presently costing million of Americans their […]

BY JOE CONASON Mythology is overshadowing history in the debate over President Barack Obama’s plan to stimulate the depressed economy. Excessive airtime is devoted to the prejudices of cable hosts and radio personalities who regurgitate ideas they barely understand [and who haven’t entertained an original thought since the Reagan era]. Urgent action that could prevent […]

BY FROMA HARROP Where did Tom Daschle get the idea that he didn’t have to pay his taxes? The question sets off wild mood swings about the man President Obama has picked to remake the American health-care system – his apology notwithstanding. On one hand, the former senator from South Dakota brims with smarts on […]