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Single Women Fend for Themselves in Recession
On the heels of another dismal job report and a flaming national debate over the meaning of marriage, the Center for American Progress presents a snapshot of the unmarried …
Mining for El Salvador’s Gold – in Washington
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to travel to Cabañas, El Salvador, to meet with some of the bravest and most successful environmental activists in the world. Ordinary …
The Climate Agency: A Letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President, The world is in crisis. There may not be a crisis in the Oval Office or the climate-controlled West Wing, but for the rest of us …
Political Will Necessary to End High Child Mortality Rate in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa - By the time Thandi Khumalo* brought her seven-month-old daughter to the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, help came too late. The infant …
Proposed Lowe’s Drywall Settlement Offers Small Payouts to Victims, Big Fees for Attorneys
Lowe’s Companies Inc., the nation’s No. 2 home improvement chain, has set off a legal firestorm by agreeing to a national settlement over tainted drywall in a class-action suit …
Reprove Your Kinsman
“This Time We Went Too Far Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion” Norman G. Finkelstein OR Books New York, 2010 Reprove your kinsman but incur no guilt because …
Nora Shourd and Iran Mothers of Prisoners of Conscience
Tehran - Outside the prison walls of ward 350, in the IRI – Islamic Republic of Iran’s Evin Prison, a group of brave demonstrators hold placards and pictures of …
Obama’s Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, but Not Flood Relief
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel said, correctly, in November 2008, referring to the economic crisis, and the fact that it created political …
“Game of Chicken” Coming in Congress Over Bush Tax Cuts
Washington - Congressional incumbents, already nervous about increasingly unpredictable November elections, are facing a potentially make-or-break political decision: Whether to vote on extending expiring Bush era tax cuts before …
The Other Kashmir Problem: India and Pakistan Tussle Over Water
Srinigar, India - Amid a summer of heat, regional flooding, and separatist protests across Indian-controlled Kashmir, one of the unlikely grievances mentioned by rock-throwing youth is water.