BY KAREN WEBB Remember when U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn was trying to help former Sen. John Ensign, his fellow member of the Bible study group...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH In 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed its decision in Roe v. Wade holding that a woman has a constitutional right, grounded in the right to privacy, to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term. That right, of course, is not – and never has […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The very fine public servant, Russ Feingold, cautioned against the steady slippage of our democracy toward autocracy back in October 2001, when he stood tall as the only U.S. aenator to vote against the Patriot Act. Warning that its anti-democratic provisions would create a nation “where the government is entitled to open […]

BY JOE CONASON With his impending re-election in “Blue Jersey” evidently assured and his national profile rising, Chris Christie is a formidable presidential hopeful. If not always a voice of reason, the blustering governor usually sounds sane in a Republican Party where conspiracy, paranoia and extremism reign. His decision to abandon the state’s legal appeal […]

BY VERN TURNER Someone I know recently sent me a summary of characteristics that smacks me as pertinent in today’s Western governments, especially in...