Froma Harrop

Froma Harrop, writes for Creators Syndicate.

Froma Harrop | Will Snowe Fall in Maine?

Go visit potato country at the tippy-top of Maine. There, struggling farmers can look across the St. John River at equally hard-pressed potato growers in New Brunswick, Canada. The …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

March 19, 2010

Froma Harrop | Jihad Jane: Terror by Reason of Insanity

Consider the case of “Jihad Jane.” Divorced twice (first marriage at 16), Colleen LaRose was arrested for drunkenness in Texas. She ended up living with a boyfriend in a …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

March 16, 2010

Froma Harrop | Coming Between You and Your Doctor

The lights must dim around Google's data-storage centers every time someone does a search for “government bureaucrat coming between you and your doctor.” Foes of the Democrats' health-reform proposals …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

March 13, 2010

Froma Harrop | The Volcker Rule: Beware Gremlins in Guccis

A big chunk of rock went missing from Mount Rushmore when Paul Volcker broke away in 2008 to stand stony-faced behind candidate Barack Obama. The former Federal Reserve chairman …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

March 9, 2010

Froma Harrop | Americans Can Speak for Themselves on Health Care

Have you voted on any of the Democratic health care reform plans? Me neither. No such vote was ever taken. But with coordination that the Rockettes would envy, Republicans …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

February 25, 2010

Froma Harrop | Republican Talk of the “Sensible Middle” Makes No Sense

We keep hearing that “Obama should move to the center.” A variation on this theme is that the president should find the “sensible middle” on policy. But what the …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

February 21, 2010

Froma Harrop | The Urban Future Isn’t All About Population Booms

Sunbelt-and-sprawl advocate Joel Kotkin wrote two years ago that the future of American urbanism wasn't in the “elite cities,” such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

February 4, 2010

Froma Harrop | Democrats Must Swing for the Fences or Lose

Is there a patriot in the house? Is there anyone in Washington who regards governing as a means to accomplish anything other than win the sterile game of Democrat …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

January 29, 2010

Froma Harrop | The Real Miracle Happened Four Years Ago

The miracle in Massachusetts was made possible through a bigger miracle four years ago. That's when the commonwealth became the first and so far only state to guarantee near-universal …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

January 21, 2010

Froma Harrop | Google’s Heroism (Sort of), Self-Interest and Parasitism

So Google wants to play human-rights superhero. Five years ago, it compromised its standing as the global avatar of cyber-freedom by blocking certain searches on its Chinese website at …

By: Froma Harrop ,; Truthout

January 14, 2010

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