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Obama Vows to End Homelessness in Ten Years
Washington - The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious plan that aspires to end homelessness among some of society's most vulnerable groups within the next decade. "Opening …
Hearings Reveal Lapses in Private Security in War Zones
Washington - Jerry Torres, CEO of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, has a motto: "For Torres, failure is not an option." A former member of the Green Berets, one of …
The Question of Presidential Leadership
Two days after his meeting with President Barack Obama and one day after his front man, Tony Hayward, performed dismally before Congress, Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman of BP, removed …
Protecting Our Water Commons: Interview With Robert Kennedy Jr
Whose job is it to protect our waterways? Water quality laws and enforcement are only as strong as the popular movements that press for them. Unless we stand up, …
Are Napolitano’s Mass Spying Powers a Greater Threat to Civil Liberties Than Under Bush?
According to a June 18 AP article, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has defended monitoring Internet communications as a “civil liberties trade-off the US must make to beef up …
Will Brown Take Position on Water Bond, Peripheral Canal?
Democrat Jerry Brown, the California attorney general and former two-term governor, and Republican Meg Whitman will face off this November in what is expected to be one of the …
Report Finds US Tax Money May Be Funding Afghan Insurgents
Washington - Private security contractors protecting the convoys that supply U.S. military bases in Afghanistan are paying millions of dollars a week in "passage bribes" to the Taliban and …
Froma Harrop | Electrify the Roads
My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we'd have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I'm sad that …
Senate Republicans Nix Job Bill
It looks as if election-year strategies are trumping any actual problem-solving by Republican lawmakers. In the midst of one of the worst unemployment crises in U.S. history, Senate Republicans …
Eugene Robinson | All Shook Up for BP
Washington - Joe Barton is not alone. The Texas congressman's lavish sympathy for BP — which he sees not as perpetrator of a preventable disaster but as victim of …