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Obama school plan has pluses but big minuses, teachers and others warn

March 17, 2010 By Susan Webb

The administration's education "blueprint" discards some of the No Child Left Behind law's much-criticized features, but keeps or adds others that teachers, their unions and other public school advocates oppose.

With health care street heat, progressives blunt teabaggers

March 17, 2010 By Bruce Bostick

Eyewitness report from a raucus demonstration on health care reform in Columbus, Ohio.

Rich get richer; Working families feeling the pinch

March 17, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

The rich are getting richer, and they are paying fewer taxes.

Useless war: Afghanistan needs peace to develop

March 17, 2010 By John Bachtell

In a potentially important development, exiled members of the former People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan are returning to the country to re-found the organization.

Mexican government on full-blast offensive against workers

March 17, 2010 By Emile Schepers

There is a strong, yet indirect, link to the Mexican government's attack on workers and current drug-related violence, analsyt Emile Schepers points out.