Vaccinations and the Ice Cream Scare

July 26, 2011 By Tina Dupuy

Tina Dupuy: Not getting immunizations is treated like a religious rite. We’re afraid to offend those who have faith in not inoculating their kids to allegedly save them from autism. Which means vintage viruses are in again.

Will Obama Ever Hold the Republicans Accountable?

July 26, 2011 By Paul Rogat Loeb

Paul Loeb: Obama has forgotten the basic lesson of negotiation — you don’t hand everything over before you start, particularly to people who have utter contempt for your values and goals.

How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East

July 25, 2011 By admin

Tom Englehart: the U.S. military has gathered biometric data—“digital scans of eyes, photographs of the face, and fingerprints”—on 2.2 million Iraqis and 1.5 million Afghans, with an emphasis on men of an age to become insurgents.

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Cain Turns History Upside Down

July 25, 2011 By Berry Craig

Berry Craig: Herman Cain says liberal Democrats have foisted “economic slavery” on African Americans and the rest of the body politic just as conservative, white supremacist Democrats of old fastened shackles on his forbears.

Racism and the Norweigian Madman

July 25, 2011 By Jessie Daniels

Jessie Daniels: Racism seems to be implicated in this story in two, very telling, ways: Breivik’s views and the initial news reports about the terror strikes.

Vicious Cycles: Why Washington Is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse

July 25, 2011 By Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The only way out of the vicious economic cycle is for government to adopt an expansionary fiscal policy — spending more in the short term in order to make up for the shortfall in consumer demand.

What “Shared Sacrifice” Means

July 24, 2011 By Carl Bloice

Carl Bloice: All across the country social services, which largely benefit lower income women, men and children are being cut back and people who made them function are being added to the ranks of the unemployed.

It Takes Strength to Compromise — and It Costs Less, Too

July 24, 2011 By Tanya Acker

Tanya Acker: There is a lot of discussion these days about the detriments of compromise. When you compromise, for instance, certain people may claim you don’t stick to your guns and decide not to vote for you.

Won’t You Come Home, Jim Crow?

July 24, 2011 By Tom Degan

Tom Degan: The Republican party is at this very moment mounting a campaign that, if successful, will disenfranchise the voting rights of African Americans – and everyone else who tends to vote left-of-center – all across America. Isn’t that sweet?

Don’t Let Doom Merchants Obscure True European Picture

July 24, 2011 By Steven Hill

Steven Hill: Fearful headlines hide success stories such as Poland, which show Europe is taking the right steps to economic recovery.

Medicare Is the Solution, Not the Problem

July 23, 2011 By Robert Reich

Robert Reich: The real problem is the soaring costs of health care that lie beneath Medicare. They’re costs all of us are bearing in the form of soaring premiums, co-payments, and deductibles. Medicare offers a means of reducing these costs — if Washington would let it.

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Democracy Is Messy

July 23, 2011 By Ted Vaill

Ted Vaill: Every Member of Congress who voted against increasing the debt ceiling should be targeted for defeat in the 2012 election. If that is not successful in changing the makeup of Congress after 2012, I may follow the lead of my ancestor Pelatiah Everett, and begin a new revolution.

Palestine: “Well…It Is an Occupation!”

July 23, 2011 By Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher: Whatever the original ambitions of the Israelis in the aftermath of the June 1967 War, it is clear that the settlements are no longer a bargaining chip but are there as part of a process of annexation.

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‘10 Commandments Judge’ Running for President

July 23, 2011 By Walter M. Brasch

Walter Brasch: The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office for defying the Constitution and a federal court order is one of 14 major candidates running for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

The Debt Ceiling and You

July 23, 2011 By Miles Blue

Miles Blue: The entire country is being held hostage by their idiocy. The primary national deficit in the United States is the brains of our smug, entitled, self-absorbed, ego-driven, grandstanding, politicians.