Practicing Political Medicine

Practicing Political Medicine

On the afternoon of October 16, while Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were preparing for their debate at Hofstra University, Jill Stein was being handcuffed by police outside the auditorium. She would have preferred to be inside the hall that day, debating alongside her...

Imperium Watch: The Solamere Money Machine

Solamere Capital Partners is an equity firm started up with $10 million in seed money from Mitt and Ann Romney by their son Tagg and Romney chief fundraiser Spencer Zwick. It invests in other equity firms, many run by Romney political donors. One of those firms is HIG...

Between the Lines: Where Are the Heroes?

When I was a boy, my bedroom was plastered with posters: a day-glo illustration of the Beatles from Yellow Submarine; a prehistorically pouting Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.; Clark Gable, chewing on a cigar and scrutinizing a poker hand in Gone With the Wind....
Should the Iron Horse Pony Up?

Should the Iron Horse Pony Up?

If you’ve wandered through downtown Northampton or been to ES Sports or Holyoke Country Club lately, you’ve probably seen large signs that say Iron Horse Entertainment Group (or other Eric Suher-owned businesses) Unfair. Sitting next to the signs,...

We Are All Suspects Here

After our plane touched down in Newark, N. J., my family and I had an hour and a half to get to our connecting flight back to Hartford. We were flying in from Europe. Because we needed to go through customs, we needed to first retrieve our luggage, have our passports...