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On Health Care, Just Do It
Washington - Better late than never. Now that President Obama has finally put a health care proposal on the table, the Democratic leadership in Congress has only one rational …
The President
The President’s Proposal puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care.
Bomb Plot Suspect Pleads Guilty in Federal Court
Najibullah Zazi, a suspected terrorist, pled guilty today in federal court to conspiring to use explosive materials.
Francis Njubi Nesbitt | Piracy Redux
Over a year after the scourge of piracy escalated in the Gulf of Aden, the world is still mired in misguided and misdirected militarist policies. Meanwhile, millions of Somalis …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Elephant at the Health Care Summit
Washington - This week will determine the shape of American politics for the next three years.
New York Times’ “Mystery” Op-Ed Calls for More Afghan Civilian Deaths
On Thursday, The New York Times made an astonishing editorial choice, for which its editors owe the public an explanation: it published an op-ed by an obscure and poorly …
Visiting a Modern-Day Slave Plantation
An Interview With Nancy A. Heitzeg. Nancy A. Heitzeg Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and program co-director, critical studies of race and ethnicity at St. Catherine University in …
Community and Popular Radio in Haiti Today
Sony Esteus is squeezed into an elementary school chair, the kind with the curved piece of wood in front, in a courtyard. Around him are chickens, a fly-swarmed pile …
It’s Not the Budget Deficit; It’s the Trade Deficit
The Wall-Street-financed crew that is pushing to gut Social Security and Medicare is used to playing fast and loose with facts and logic to advance their agenda. Unfortunately, many …
Terrorism Law, the New McCarthyism
Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the first encounter with the free speech and association rights of American citizens in the context of terrorism since …