To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Real World Economics
BY SHARON MARTIN
Recently, the following statement showed up on my Facebook feed: “The essential difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals could not...
Kicking The Cat
BY DAVID PERRYMAN
Harper’s is the second oldest continuously published magazine in the country, just behind Scientific American. Through the years, both have addressed a...
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up – And, Well, You Shouldn’t
BY GENE POLICINSKI
You can't make this kind of thing up.
On the very day America's top real news anchor gets suspended for telling fake news,...
On Gas Tax Increase, Obama Is Wrong – And [Some] Republicans Are Right
BY JOE CONASON It doesn’t happen often, but Washington is now debating an important issue on which the United States Chamber of Commerce, Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK, Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer, and a growing posse of assorted right-wingers are right – and President Barack Obama is wrong. Those voices on the right, along with […]
Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave, When We Make Tests Punitive
BY JOHN THOMPSON
When I was in school in the 1960s, we occasionally took a standardized test, and we took ACT and SAT tests as...