by Ted Rall | Aug 19, 2010 | News
Two months ago, long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas got fired by her employer, the Hearst newspaper conglomerate, in response to her off-the-cuff slam at Israel. I criticized the firing on free speech grounds. “Free speech must be defended no matter...
by Robert B. Reich | Aug 19, 2010 | News
The decline of America’s middle class can be charted directly. In the three decades after World War II, the median wage (smack in the middle) grew rapidly, right along with productivity gains. Even as late as 1980, the richest 1 percent of Americans received...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 19, 2010 | News
The typical victims of the foreclosure crisis are homeowners unable to make their mortgage payments. But another face of that crisis is that of the tenant who pays the rent and doesn’t violate the lease, but is being evicted from an apartment because the lender...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 19, 2010 | News
To understand the true character of many of our corporations, you have to look at what they do in other countries—not here, where regulations, public opinion and a government that hasn’t yet lost its last vestige of political sensitivity exercise some...
by Tom Sturm | Aug 19, 2010 | News
In keeping with one of the City of Easthampton’s expressed goals of remaking the former manufacturing town into a regional pioneer in renewable energy production, the municipality can now point to a local company that is working to make low-cost wind energy...
