Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past

Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past
It is O'Neill for Okies, based on a seminal event in Letts's own Durant, Okla., family: His maternal grandfather's suicide (Letts was 10 at the time) and his grandmother's ensuing drug addiction. Although Letts, 48, has written other successful plays … Read more on New York Times

The right's ugly food-stamp obsession is back! Why lying dog-whistle politics …
Bolling's rant came a day after Dick Cheney visited Fox and attacked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's military cuts, telling Sean Hannity, bizarrely, that Obama “would much rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or … Read more on Salon