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  • Health care: beyond markets

    Health care: beyond markets

    December 17, 2004

    Opinion As the United States moves into the 21st century, nowhere are the long-term adverse consequences of its political choices during the previous century more in evidence than in health care. Today’s dysfunctional health care system...

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  • Who wants to cut Social Security benefits?

    Who wants to cut Social Security benefits?

    December 17, 2004

    Opinion Sometimes the news makes me laugh out loud. Here’s a good one: “On Social Security,” reported The New York Times last week, “45 percent said a proposal to permit people to invest their Social Security...

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  • Hands off the NAACP

    Hands off the NAACP

    December 17, 2004

    Opinion I think that it is fair to say that most of us were taken aback by the audacity of the action. A few short weeks prior to the November presidential election, it was announced that...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    December 17, 2004

    Unconstitutional travel ban I have been reading about the travel restrictions to Cuba and everything I’ve read makes me believe that even if the ban was constitutional when Cuba was supported by the Soviet Union, it...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    December 17, 2004

    2005 and beyond As we put this special issue to bed, honoring 80 fighting years of our Communist, working-class press, we look ahead to the holidays and a New Year of struggle. Our next edition will...

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