BY DAVID PERRYMAN The impact of the Great Depression was most severe on the elderly and the young. For instance, while one-third of the nation...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It is almost one year until the next president of the United States will be inaugurated. Try holding your breath. That’s right. Let’s make sure absolutely nothing happens for a year. Because U.S. presidents are only elected for three years, right? The fourth year they, and we, just better hope nothing important […]

BY CHRISTIAAN MITCHELL We have a very nasty habit in this country of being die-hard, patriotic zealots for the few months leading up to an...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right-wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But he can’t be any more brain dead than Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate. In a blatantly partisan ploy to prevent President Obama from nominating a successor to Scalia, McConnell has cited […]

BY FROMA HARROP Federal investigators hold the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, the terrorist who helped slaughter 14 innocents in San Bernardino, CA. They want to look at its contents but can’t because the device is encrypted and Apple has refused to unlock it. The matter ended up in federal court, where a magistrate judge […]