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Ecuador Coup Attempt Shows Fragility of Latin American Democracy
Mexico City - President Rafael Correa of Ecuador was rescued from the hospital where he was trapped Thursday for 12 hours, but the political implications of the attempt to …
“Posing Beauty”: A Conversation With Author Deborah Willis
Seeking to understand themselves beyond the narrative du jour of slavery and Jim Crow, some contemporary scholars and archivists are revising black history through the nuanced lenses of African-American …
Tax Breaks Are Not Sufficient to Restore Employment
There is a depressing complicity among much of the political leadership about the recession. Many politicians seem prepared to accept that we will have sky-high rates of unemployment for …
Pakistan Seals Off NATO Supply Line to Afghanistan After US Air Attack
A US air attack that mistakenly killed three Pakistani border troops sparked the government to close the Torkham border post, a vital NATO supply line into Afghanistan. Taipei, Taiwan …
Federal Budgets Are Moral Documents
"... Budgets are moral documents," states Congresswoman Barbara Lee, but "they don't lend themselves to a moral reading." She adds that increases in military spending are made at the …
Environmental Justice Comes Back to Life
The Environmental Protection Agency last week resuscitated an interagency working group to tackle environmental justice, an issue that hasn’t been discussed much in Washington in nearly a decade. EPA …
“Posing Beauty”: A Conversation With Author Deborah Willis
Whether expressed in the archives of the Schomburg Center in Harlem, New York, or the African-American Research Library in Atlanta, Georgia, interest in the history of the black experience …
Congress Adjourns, but Spending Bills and Bush Tax Cuts Still Loom
Washington - Congress shut off the lights just after 1:04 a.m. Thursday, as lawmakers go home to face voters in what surveys indicate will be, for many incumbents, the …
Why Murdoch and the BBC Are on the Same Side
Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will command half the television and newspaper market …
Kimberle Crenshaw: “Post-Racial” Politics and History (Video)
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