BY SHARON MARTIN I caught a lot of flak in 2002 when I spoke out against the invasion of Iraq. I may have been wrong...

BY FROMA HARROP On the prowl for a good dinner in a Florida town we didn’t know well, I went on Yelp. Yelp is a social networking website that lets anyone review a business. One Italian restaurant looked promising, with mostly positive reviews and few grumbles. We went there, had a fine meal and told the chef-owner so. But on mentioning that we had seen the reviews on Yelp, a cloud crossed his face. A […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I was bouncing back and forth between worrying about my daughter flying to Ukraine [very far away, four connections, one airline I’d never heard of, very far away] and worrying about what I was going to say to a very smart, tough federal judge who was about to keep me on my feet for hours arguing on behalf of my client. And somewhere in the middle of the morning, when we took […]

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Was there ever a nation so marinated in hypocrisy as America? At home and abroad, President Barack Obama trumpets Uncle Sam’s virtues and dispenses patronizing homilies to other nations on how to behave themselves and honor freedom and democracy. This last week, it’s been Europe’s turn to hear these self-righteous preachments. A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Clinton attacked China, contrasting untiring efforts by the U.S. to encourage human rights […]

BY JOE CONASON Still spinning in the vortex of the May 24 tornado in New York’s 26th Congressional District, Republican leaders insist that Democrat Kathy Hochul’s upset victory on their party’s turf was meaningless. They say that Republican nominee Jane Corwin lost because of her own weak campaign, or the presence of a big-spending Tea Party candidate on a third ballot line, or just about anything except the Republican scheme to slash Medicare – which […]