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 […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH This is the Republicans’ big contribution to our economic recovery: They want to make sure that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes using tax identification numbers don’t get a cent of their tax money back in the refunds enacted by Congress. Oh, yes, and they want rich people to get tax refunds. Anything […]

BY JOE CONASON How fortunate for Barack Obama that Rush Limbaugh, big radio personality and leader of the instinctual far right, has yet to retire to a sunny island with his bottles of pills. At a moment when Republicans on Capitol Hill feel they must pretend to negotiate with the popular new president over spending […]

BY FROMA HARROP I envy Sports Man. He can rise above his own problems by focusing on the triumphs or setbacks of The Team. Last October, the stock market was tanking and so was Sports Man’s beloved Red Sox. Did Sports Man worry that his dreams of easy living were being dashed on the shoals […]