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Haiti’s 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain
Grand Goave - Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in Haiti's 1,354 squalid refugee camps. She and 1,200 others are jammed into 300 tents …
Mileage: This Isn’t Rocket Science. It’s Auto Mechanics
Washington - The next big thing from Detroit may not just be a new car, but a new car industry: Transformed, modern and competitive. This month, with traditional fanfare, …
Refugees Languish in Private Detention Limbo
Daniel doesn't look like a typical activist. He sports a shaved head, stands over six-feet tall and moves with the leisurely gait of a man who isn't told to …
One More Vote: My Day of Registering Latino Voters
The automatic doors whooshed open and a man entered the store. His eyes were aimed straight ahead and he did not glance my way. His skin was brown and …
FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker’s Terror Ties
Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group …
From Vacant City Lots to Food on the Table
The first time I went to Richmond, Calif., nine years ago, my friend, who ran a punk music recording studio out of a converted warehouse, told us not to …
Personally Invested in Mortgage Banks, House Republican Opposes Fix for “Foreclosure-Gate“
Widespread reports about “robo-signers” — bank officials who would sign foreclosure forms without even reading them — have lead many business reporters to dub the crisis of potentially illegal …
Special Report: Detainee Experimentation Program Revealed
Editor's Note: When President George W. Bush authorized waterboarding and other forms of torture on “war on terror” detainees, the patterns of abusive treatment and the gauging of physiological …
Pentagon Halts Enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Amid Legal Challenge
Washington - The Pentagon Thursday halted enforcement of its “don't ask, don't tell” policy pending an appeal of a federal court order prohibiting the government from expelling gays and …
The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence in Four US Wars
President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 to ensure that the policy community would have access to independent intelligence analysis that was free of the …