Sarah Jaffe

Mass school clo­sures in the US’ third-largest city will dis­rupt stu­dents’ lives and put their safe­ty at risk.

Al­though it fails to im­press, the lat­est adap­ta­tion of The Great Gats­by finds rel­e­vance due to the fi­nan­cial straits.

Pritzk­er’s nom­i­na­tion as Sec­re­tary of Com­merce shows how the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty is lean­ing to­wards the rich, notes Jaffe.

Chris­tine Quinn shouldn’t be lam­bast­ed for un­ruly be­hav­iour – she should be lam­bast­ed for pet­ty pol­i­tics.

In­stead of cuts and tax hikes on work­ing peo­ple, el­der­ly and vet­er­ans, it is time for “high­er tax­es on the wealthy”.