Struggling to comprehend the right-wing assault on unions in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, the attempts to defund federal programs for the poor, the increasing demonization of the non-white, and the championing of a tax system that is throwing more and more of the country's wealth into the hands of less...

Cleaning out my files at year's end, I came across notes that I wrote in early 2002 on a dozen ways to eliminate America's middle class through the actions of government and private industry. I must have put the notes away because it did not seem possible that all these...

Much of America is giggling about the TSA groping and body-scanning. Well, we need a good laugh right about now, and it always helps us to laugh at ourselves. But out there, somewhere, Osama Bin Laden is laughing -- and he's not laughing with us over this, he's laughing at...

Congratulations to the newly elected and re-elected, and to the ordinary citizens who voted for winning candidates. Now, while the glow is still warm, is when we all need a dose of reality. We are unlikely to get it, however, because there are at least five truths that our newly...

Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig is now posthumously being recast as the quintessential soldier-patriot. The truth is, he had a dark side: wiretapping for Richard Nixon, facilitating the operations of a military spy ring that stole classified documents from the White House, sabotaging peace negotiations over Vietnam and détente...

Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney in a recent interview with Politico labeled President Barack Obama's drawn-out process of deciding on a troop surge for Afghanistan as projecting "weakness," and charged that this and other "signs of weakness" would embolden our adversaries in the world. In articulating this position, Cheney...