To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, April 29, 2024

Observercast

Double Standards For Dress Sabotage Working Women

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BY FROMA HARROP Two remarkably different articles on dressing for business appeared in The Wall Street Journal on the same day. Both purported to offer advice. One was “Please, Men of the World, Tuck in Your Shirts.” It urged men to dress more neatly. The other was “The Rebellious New Power Suit for Women.” It […]

Can We Have a Sensible Immigration Policy?

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BY FROMA HARROP What would a sensible immigration policy look like? It would have three goals: be humane, enforce the laws and meet America’s need for labor. This can happen only if our political fringes get out of the way. Some on the far right simply don’t like most of the immigrants, mainly because of […]

The Other Donald Trump

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Imagine, just for a minute, that after the 2016 election, the other Donald Trump had gotten elected. You know, the one who hung out with establishment types, invited Bill and Hill to his wedding, liked Democrats, knew how to bring a group together. That guy. And for season one, just imagine that […]

How Far-Out Is Trump’s War Policy?

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER War is hell. We’ve learned that over and over from the hundreds of thousands of deaths, uncountable maimings, torturings and other horrors our soldiers have experienced in the multitude of wars in this century alone. America is now militarily involved in 76 countries! Yet, the war machine – including a massive army […]

Kavanaugh Charade Is Coming Apart

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BY JOE CONASON Facing a public relations debacle, Senate Republicans have come up with a surefire compromise to win confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: Instead of simply dismissing the sexual assault accusation lodged against their nominee, they will pretend to investigate – and only then rubber-stamp him. Won’t both sides be […]