Archives for Best Web OpEds
January 2013
Thursday, January 31:
Syria: How We Can End The Bloodshed
"The L Word Lives: Is it Safe to Say "Liberal" Again? "
Colin Powell asks O'Reilly: Why do you only see me as an African-American? (1 comments)
Mark Morford: Godless liberal sickos win again (4 comments)
Wednesday, January 30:
The Psychology of Culture (Making Oppression Appear Normal), by Della Fave at Monthly Review (7 comments)
Georgia man guns down immigrant after GPS sends him to wrong driveway
Susan Lee Schwartz: Biotech Firms, Billions at Risk, Lobby States to Limit Generics - By ANDREW POLLACK NYTimes.com
Tuesday, January 29:
Latest Pathetic Conservative Attack on Social Security: Disability Fraud Hysteria
Monday, January 28:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Selling a New Generation on Guns
WWJD? Conservative Christian Radio Host Freaks Out About "Family-Destroying Whores"
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Biggest Carbon Sin - Air Travel (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel
Susan Lee Schwartz: Military Tribunals and International War Crimes
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Bird Flu Experiments - NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Potential benefits and threats of nanotechnology research
Bill Black: The Handmaiden of Capitalism v. the "Swamp" Denizen of Detroit (1 comments)
Sunday, January 27:
Paul Krugman: Makers, Takers, Fakers
Are Republicans the 'stupid party'? (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: What We Don't Know Is Killing Us - NYTimes.com
Saturday, January 26:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Rig the Vote - By CHARLES M. BLOWNYTimes.com (1 comments)
Alan Gross and Regime Change in Cuba
Susan Lee Schwartz: Moyers & Company: Foul Play in the Senate, and Today's Abortion Debate
Susan Lee Schwartz: Hubris in Virginia - NYTimes.com (2 comments)
Weekend Reader: Paul Krugman's End This Depression Now! (1 comments)
Why the World Economic Forum and Goldman Sachs are Capitalism's Worst Enemies
Friday, January 25:
Paul Krugman: Deficit Hawks Down
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Collective Turn
What Both Parties Have in Common
Thursday, January 24:
David Corn: When John Kerry Was a Lone Hero in Congress
Senate Democrats Unveil Assault Weapons Ban. Can It Win Any GOP Support? (1 comments)
PLO report gives details of 266 Palestinians killed by Israel in 2012
Obama's inaugural speech: Rhetoric and reality What does this new 'liberal vision' actually mean?
Nugent At Gun Industry Trade Show: "If You Want Another Concord Bridge, I've Got Some Buddies"
"The Critical State of Our Mother Earth" (2 comments)
Paul Krugman: Tim Geithner Is Wrong
What happened when I asked Paul Ryan why he hates taxes
Susan Lee Schwartz: You Are Going to Die - NYTimes.com
George Monbiot: A telling Silence (4 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Invitation to a Dialogue - Media Violence
What Was the NRA Like in 1905?
Susan Lee Schwartz: A Chance for the Senate to Fix the Filibuster - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, January 23:
Torture and the Dark Side of "Zero Dark Thirty" (2 comments)
The Debt Distraction: 5 Falsehoods Hurting Our Economy
Susan Lee Schwartz: Prison Not as Mandatory as N.Y. State Gun Laws Say - By SAM ROBERTS NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Obama's Big Deal - By PAUL KRUGMAN NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Have We Reached a New Political Alignment Yet? - By ROBERT O. SELF NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: A Choice for Republican Leaders - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 22:
World's happiest countries (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Warnings From a Flabby Mouse - By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFNYTimes.com
Our Dumb Democracy: Why the Untied States of Stupid Still Reins Supreme | Common Dreams
David Corn: Obama the Organizer: Help Me Win Second-Term Fights
How America Became a Global Kidnapper and Torturer (1 comments)
Monday, January 21:
Profits of World's 100 Wealthiest Could End Poverty Four Times Over (5 comments)
What Do Americans Really Think About Social Security?
Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery (1 comments)
Dallas Fed Reserve CEO: Ending 'Too Big to Fail': A Proposal for Reform Before It's Too Late (5 comments)
Obama wants to add 1,000 armed guards, counselors at schools, post-Sandy Hook
Sunday, January 20:
Paul Krugman: Obama's Big Deal (1 comments)
Americas Third World War: How 6 million People Were Killed in CIA Secret Wars
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Gun Makers in Your Fund Portfolio - By JEFF SOMMER NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: The N.R.A.'s Diversionary Tactics -DOROTHY SAMUELS NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Lessons From the London Whale - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan and My Penis -- Part One: Alex Jones Versus Downton Abbey, by Greg Palast (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Inequality Is Holding Back The Recovery - By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZNYTimes.com (1 comments)
Saturday, January 19:
Over 1,000 killed in US since last month's Connecticut school shooting
Susan Lee Schwartz: Pennsylvania House Republicans Introduce Bill To Rig The 2016 Presidential Election (2 comments)
Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Introduced in Indiana (3 comments)
Friday, January 18:
U.S. CEOs Push Plan To Raise Full Retirement Age To 70 (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The States Confront Gun Violence - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Don't Blame the Sandy Hook Truthers (4 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Dwindling Deficit - By PAUL KRUGMAN NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman: The Dwindling Deficit
Susan Lee Schwartz: Rachel Maddow Mocks The NRA For Response To Obama's Gun Control Press Conference (VIDEO)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Gun Violence Prevention 101 | ThinkProgress (3 comments)
Has Israel Become America's Pope? (2 comments)
Thursday, January 17:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Joy Resmovits: Hufington Post Charter School Growth In Michigan Brings Cautionary Tale On Quality (1 comments)
What Would a Down-to-Earth Economy Look Like? | Common Dreams (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Deafness at Doomsday - By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: President Obama's Plan for Gun Reform - NYTimes.com
The second amendment was written to protect slavery, not freedom:
Wednesday, January 16:
Glenn Beck Wants to Build an Ayn Rand Inspired Utopia (2 comments)
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick: Obama's empire (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 15:
Eugene Robinson: Republicans' Destructive Game Of Chicken
Bill Black: Obama commits Unilateral Disarmament as a Debt Ceiling Negotiator
Monday, January 14:
Phil Gingrey, Todd Akin, and Richard Mourdock: The GOP's rape problem is spreading
Prosecutor as Bully (1 comments)
Bill Black: The Most Embarrassing Financial Column of 2013
How "Public Opinion" is shaped by Paid Shills (8 comments)
Jan. 19th is 'Gun Appreciation Day': Mark Your Calendar
Sunday, January 13:
Deafening global silence on Julian Assange
Dan Froomkin: How Many Dead and Wounded Soldiers Ago Did Obama Give Up on Afghanistan?
Saturday, January 12:
Obsessed By Megalomania (1 comments)
Charles Blow (NY Times): Revolutionary Language
Susan Lee Schwartz: Progress on Mortgage Regulations - NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Joy Resmovits: Tennessee Teacher Cheating Ring: The Plot Thickens
Who was Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Why was she Killed? (1 comments)
The US is an Assassination State (1 comments)
Friday, January 11:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Health Care and Pursuit of Profit Make a Poor Mix - By EDUARDO PORTER NYTimes.com
The Hitler gun control lie; Nazis Actually Loosened Gun Control Laws (102 comments)
Clinton: International portfolio, domestic concerns
Yes, SF Weekly Was Sold to the Same Guy Who Owns the Examiner and Bay Guardian - San Francisco - News - The Snitch (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Coins Against Crazies - By PAUL KRUGMAN NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Bank Deal Ends Flawed Reviews of Foreclosures -
Susan Lee Schwartz: Reframing the Gun Debate - By CHARLES M. BLOW NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: America's Health Disadvantage - NYTimes.com
Susan Lee Schwartz: Democracy in the House - NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman: Coins Against Crazies
Thursday, January 10:
Kristoff: In Defense of Hagel for Defense
Susan Lee Schwartz: Another Slap on the Wrist for Big Banks - NYTimes.com
On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human
The Day that Einstein Feared has Finally Arrived (4 comments)
Wednesday, January 9:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Companies Exploit Tax Break for Asset Exchanges, Trial Evidence Shows - By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI NYTimes.com
"Overcoming Powerlessness" by Ralph Nader (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Next Round of Tax Increases - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
The worst Sandy Hook conspiracy theory yet-- Salon (37 comments)
Why President Obama is picking fights with Congress
Geoffrey R. Stone, esq.: Understanding the Second Amendment (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 8:
Susan Lee Schwartz: What the Fight Over Guns Is Really About - Room for Debate
The four business gangs that run the US
Judge in San Francisco lets biggest medical pot shop stay open | Reuters (1 comments)
Monday, January 7:
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Big Fail - By PAUL KRUGMAN NYTimes.com
Debt-limit fight takes shape: Will Mitch McConnell ever be satisfied? (1 comments)
This is what would happen if we breach the debt ceiling (1 comments)
Chuck Hagel's Biggest Problem: He's Like President Obama
Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win
Sunday, January 6:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Bank Settlement May Leave Tiny Slices of a Smaller Pie
Susan Lee Schwartz: More Guns = More Killing - By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, NYTimes.com (2 comments)
White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings
The Madness of the NRA (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: BREAKING: Shell Oil Rig Crashes near Alaska coast - Sierra Club
Saturday, January 5:
In Republican Resistance To Hurricane Relief, A Stink Of Hypocrisy -- And Worse
San Francisco Sunday Parking Meter Enforcement Begins This Week (4 comments)
Secret and Lies of the Bailout
Save Social Security! (1 comments)
Why Single-Degree Climate Changes Matter
Friday, January 4:
A New Year's Resolution For the American Conservative Christian
House Republicans remain determined to ignore women
Why Al Jazeera owning Current is a good thing for media, country
There Is No Such Thing as a 'Pro-Life Feminist' (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Battles of the Budget
Thursday, January 3:
Our Failed Trade Policies Are Not Creating Jobs at Home
Eric Cantor's revolt exposes Republican rift in fight for party's future
Charles M. Blow: Cliff After Cliff
Frank Rich: The Fiscal Cliff Was a Molehill (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 2:
Chris Christie Went Ballistic On John Boehner In A Press Conference That Was Like Something Out Of A Movie (1 comments)
Here's What Every Liberal Is Worried That Obama Will Do Next (1 comments)
The Estate Tax Is a Huge Giveaway in the Fiscal-Cliff Talks - Matthew O'Brien - The Atlantic
US Budget Compromise Demonstrates Ongoing Political Stasis in US
Latin American Backlash Against GM Food
Hillary Clinton Haters Hammered for Mocking Her Illness (5 comments)
Tuesday, January 1:
When fracking came to suburban Texas
Paul Krugman: Perspective on the Deal (1 comments)
Michael Hudson: America's Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff