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If we must resort to handouts to save our country, let's at least put them in the hands of the most deserving. We should start with the roughly 2 million veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
Is your son in danger of becoming a mama's boy? That's the stereotype so many people associate with sons raised by women alone. And like most stereotypes, it simply doesn't hold up to reality.
We must use the principles of the New Deal, but create something both broader and permanent: a universal job guarantee available through the thick and thin of the business cycle.
Over the last few months, a number of prominent political columnists have pointed to historian and social critic Richard Hofstadter to explain what is happening to the Republican Party. Here's why they shouldn't.
I am a hesitant to say this, but New York's credit-cards-in-cabs system is great. My big remaining complaint is "Taxi TV" -- the boring, annoying reports and ads that are occasionally impossible to turn off.
A column in the Business section was about how the American worker is overpaid. They claim that if workers don't take cuts, these "overpaid" working stiffs will be the cause of another Great Depression.
If you're quivering with rage just thinking about Wall Street, it's time to take action. I've discovered a way to achieve a semblance of inner peace without therapists, tranquilizers or weapons.
Most of what I learned about rewriting and pitching in a room I learned from observing David Lloyd. There's never been anybody like him. He was a cyclone.
This prose-poem guest column was written by Orlando Luis Pardo, who was kidnapped and beaten together with me on the evening of November 6.
Following Matthew Hoh's resignation letter comes a missive from William Polk who, like Hoh, finds the only prudent course of action regarding Afghanistan to be a timely removal of troops.
The suggestion coming out of Washington is for women to buy supplemental insurance to cover an unwanted pregnancy. Really? Should the other gender do the same?
President Obama chose to spotlight the ultimate sacrifice that so many of America's servicemen and women have made -- and the military families who carry those sacrifices as well.
For Obama's trip to Asia, the White House paints a full agenda -- Afghanistan, human rights, North Korean nukes, climate change, trade relations, and the economy. But it's really just the economy, stupid.
Controversial CNN host Lou Dobbs bade the people of Earth farewell today as he embarked on a long voyage back to his planet of origin.
Donald Carcieri issued that cruel veto of legislation borne of a tragedy which befell a constituent of mine. For a month, Mark Goldberg was unable to to claim the body of his partner.
Rarely has a great power so willfully set itself down the path of self-destruction with so little reason as America has in Afghanistan. This is pathological behavior that cries out for diagnosis and correction.
While Wall Street perks are percolating, guess what else those money mavericks have that you probably don't? They have allotments of H1N1 vaccine.
For me as a kid, the whole ballgame was a character named Chip Hilton, the series of wonderful novels written about him by the old basketball coach Clair Bee.
This Veterans Day, after we raise the flag, we must raise awareness about wars hidden injuries, and what's required for injured service members, families and caregivers to have safe futures.
Rush Limbaugh's home congressional district, Missouri's 8th, may be about to redeem itself. This reddest of districts has a realistic chance of turning blue, and the reason is Tommy Sowers.
