BY SUSAN ESTRICH “We have only just begun,” Geraldine Ferraro wrote in inscribing a photograph to me after the 1984 campaign. I keep it above my desk, to remind myself that Rome wasn’t built in a day, that it takes courage and perseverance when you’re trying to change the world. Gerry looks impossibly young in […]

BY SHARON MARTIN Sen. Tom Coburn’s aide explained in an e-mail to me why the senator voted to cut funding for National Writing Project. He...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middle-class jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about efficiency, as though that’s the highest value to which a civilization can aspire. Values aside, however, the problem with corporate efficiencies is that too often they are not. […]

BY FROMA HARROP Are conservatives right that our government has become overbearing? Is it true that the rights of the individual, enshrined at the dawn of the Republic and cried over by Glenn Beck, are being smashed by the modern state? One doesn’t have to be a conservative to list offensive government interventions. [I don’t […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD No, we are not making up a new word, but we are using one that we believe is of quite recent...