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Please, No Military Clothes for the President
This past weekend, President Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan, during which he doffed his civilian coat and tie and donned a “Commander-in-chief” leather flight jacket provided to …
Closing Medicare’s Drug “Doughnut Hole“
Washington - Now that the health care overhaul has passed Congress, Democratic lawmakers are hoping to highlight its most immediate benefits. Chief among them: a plan to help millions …
Forests May Depend on Survival of Native People
Montpellier, France - After the failures in Copenhagen to agree on a new climate protection treaty, and more recently at the Doha meetings on trade in endangered species to …
DA Refuses to Prosecute Animal Cruelty Case
Pennsylvania is the only state to permit live pigeon shoots. A Pennsylvania district attorney accepted campaign funds from an organization that promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then …
Cancer Prevention Coalition’s Response to Obama’s Nomination of the Director of the National Cancer Institute
Chicago - Statement from the Cancer Prevention Coalition: “The NCI has become what amounts to a government pharmaceutical company.” Last Wednesday, the White House nominated Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus …
The Far Right’s Hate Element
Washington - The arrests of members of a Michigan-based “Christian” militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism — and potential …
Connie Schultz | Newspapers Should Start Naming Names
I look forward to the day when news organizations start to ban anonymous comments on their Web sites. Maybe that's the foolish optimist in me, but I want to …
Norman Solomon | Obama in a Bomber Jacket
President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to …
Obama in a Bomber Jacket
President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to …
Fareed Zakaria | “Swing for the Fences“
America's green czar is counting on big breakthroughs.