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Speaking/Running Against Hate, Censorship and Forbidden Curriculums
On a crisp Tucson morning, we gather at A Mountain. Indigenous teachers from Chihuahua to Chiapas and from Jalisco to the Yucatan go into the crater. It is Sat. …

Ruth Marcus | For Biden, Mission Accomplished
Washington - The vice president calls, more than an hour after the appointed time but with an impeccable excuse: He was presiding over the Senate's vote to ratify the …

Afghan Youth Supply Their Answer to US’s December Review
Two days after the Obama administration released its December review of the war in Afghanistan to a public made increasingly skeptical by the war's rising human and economic costs, …

After DREAM Act Defeat, Advocates Fight for Educational Equality
The Senate failed to pass the DREAM Act Saturday, as Democrats fell five votes short of the 60 needed to advance the bill. The final vote was 55-41. While …

Inupiaq People Ask: “Will We Be the Victims of the Next Oil Spill?“
The BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that began on April 20, 2010, was a wakeup call for all of us as Americans as we weigh our country’s …

Ivory Coast: Hopes for Peace Dwindle
Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Room for a peaceful resolution dwindled here as both men who claim to be president hardened their positions amid increasing accounts of political killings and …

New York, Alaska Election Contests Demonstrate, Again, Why Paper Ballots Need to Actually Be Counted
Having paper ballots is one thing. Seeing them actually be counted, unfortunately, continues to be quite another matter.

Jim Hightower | Obama to the Corporate Powers: I Feel Your Pain
Guess who's whining the loudest these days, wailing that they're getting a raw deal from Barack Obama. Not the unemployed and barely employed - even though the White House …

US Stepping Up Pressure on Pakistan
Washington - This week's leak to the New York Times of a proposal for U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids against Afghan insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan may be intended …

E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Pride of Obama’s “Orphans“
At the beginning of 2009, the choice before Democrats who controlled the 111th Congress was whether they would enact historic legislation, even at the risk of their majority, or …