Issue: 928

If conservatives are complaining that an 8.7 percent bump is not enough to counter inflation, one might expect them to demand an even greater increase to Social Security benefits. But, as is often the case with conservative economic logic, hypocrisy abounds.

Unfortunately, what Mr. Love wrote 27 years ago is even more true today.

As long as war remains a business for the U.S., and as long as people are profiting from it, not just in monetary terms but in terms of power, war will remain supreme in U.S. foreign policy.

The US has a history of nuclear extortion.