Andrew Reinbach

For most Americans, notions of sustainability and passing a livable world to our children are mainstream.

But for the John Birch Society (JBS) and a growing segment of the Right Wing, such notions are the green mask for a sinister blueprint for a UN-led New World Order that will erase...

I've been cured of my persistent fantasy that Americans can find common political ground if we try. Based on the evidence, I now believe the Right Wing's only happy to cooperate if we do everything their way and like it. So we're just going to have to slug it out....

New York's war over fracking is lurching toward the state Court of Appeals, where it will languish for the best part of two years to little purpose because everyone involved expects the ball to be lobbed to the state Assembly for clarification after the decision is handed down.

Along...

The world is a bad place and people do bad things in it. It's made worse when good people do bad things by just doing their jobs, trying to make it better.

And that's the sum of this story. Looking after the people in their care, the country's pension funds,...

Whether Newt Gingrich's romp in the South Carolina primary blew the GOP nomination race wide open or whether it is just a blip that Mitt Romney and his allies will hammer down remains to be seen. But there's little doubt that whoever gets the GOP nomination will be badly weakened...

Millions of retired Americans are frozen out of the health care system even though they've paid into it all their lives, because most of them rely on Social Security for the bulk of their income and can't afford the 20 percent of every medical bill that Medicare requires them to...

On 8PM on November 4th, 2009, Amir Celoski was sitting in his Acura at a traffic light in Paterson New Jersey. The 28-year-old masonry contractor was on his way to pick up new company shirts for his employees; on the passenger seat was sushi for his fiancé, Sibel. Then a...

I have never begun a column with more misgivings.

Foreign and domestic, President Obama has accomplished far more than his critics allow. In some ways -- the way he took out Osama bin Laden, for instance -- he's shown a fine, if cerebral, executive ability.

But I can't avoid...

It was Euripides who said "Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."

Grover Norquist should be thinking about that quote from Euripides. Because he's obviously gone mad with power.

He's forced, bullied, and otherwise persuaded most of Republicans in Congress to swear they'll never raise taxes,...

Anybody imagining the Euro crisis won't affect this country should stop kidding themselves.

As Peter S. Goodman said last week, there's a real danger the entire Eurozone idea -- a currency without a nation state to manage it -- could soon collapse.

Since Goodman wrote that, European...

When is official Washington going to do more than talk about Clarence Thomas?

After all the issues raised this year about the Associate Justice--including apparent perjury on his financial disclosure forms, his intriguing connections to the Koch Brothers and to Harlan Crow, and apparent bribery--you'd think the Justice himself would...

Since when life really wants to torture you it gives you what you want, I have nothing to do all day but think great thoughts. The result: I've come up with a best-case scenario for today's political mishegas, and thought I'd inflict it on you.

Only some of it is...

The Right Wing Scream Machine is in full cry about the #OccupyWallStreet protests -- sort of like a schoolyard bully, suddenly facing a 4th grader who's had enough.

Happily, the people behind the hyperventilating don't seem to realize that the more extreme their rhetoric, the less people listen to them.

The #OccupyWallStreet protests have legs. There's no doubt about it.

If you don't believe it, just take a look at the live feed some genius put on the web.

What you won't see is a bunch of angry, middle-aged folks -- some armed -- complaining about government. Instead,...

Even my handyman Ray -- a fine guy in every way, but no expert in high finance -- knows we're heading over a financial cliff. And the so-called giants bestride our economy have no better ideas of how to deal with that than Ray does.

The problems we face are...

The screed you'll find below was published yesterday on a web site called The New Boston Tea Party, an organ of a group with the same name that's been around since 2009, and that's carved out quite a niche for itself.

The thrust: Peter Lewis, who the people...

Most Americans don't realize that the right wing's main ideas have been pushed for 50 years by the John Birch Society (JBS), a group Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr once thought too extreme, but which has since become the intellectual seed bank of the right.

Among...

There's been a lot of press recently about how Rep. Ron Paul's (R.-Tx) been unfairly treated by the media and deserves more attention.

As anyone who's been following me knows, I'm no fan of Ron Paul. Rep. Paul's recent endorsement by the John Birch Society (JBS) is...

Don't blame Standard & Poor's for last week's brutal stock market; S&P may have downgraded America's credit, but all it did was say the emperor has no clothes -- no news if you watched the GOP's shenanigans over the debt ceiling.

Anyone who bothered to actually read

The debt deal President Obama announced last night goes to Congress Monday, where a handful of fanatics are waiting for it. The question is whether they'll choose the Samson option.

But it doesn't matter whether America defaults on our national debt. The damage is done. The world's seen we're...