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Health care reform takes new turn in California

January 31, 2008

This article has been corrected. The long-running saga of health reform in California has taken a new turn, with two developments that are reshaping the debate about how best to cover millions of uninsured and underinsured...

Milton Wolff, last Lincoln Brigade Commander

January 30, 2008

Milton Wolff, a perennial symbol of U.S. working-class internationalism, died Jan. 14 in California at age 92. Born in Brooklyn of immigrant parents, the last commander of the Washington-Lincoln Brigades that fought fascism in Spain was...

Aramark preys on Detroit schools, union, pols say

January 30, 2008

School predators don’t always appear as shadowy figures lurking on the fringes of playgrounds. Sometimes they come in brightly lit corporate offices wearing three-piece suits. Detroit area union officials and politicians charge that Aramark Corp., the...

Different Drummers: indigenous rights and corporate free trade in South America

January 27, 2008

Indigenous rights renewal in Latin America flourishes in some quarters, but there are many reminders of the continued misery of first peoples at the hands of propertied and commercial classes. In Brazil, especially in Mato Grosso...

China, Cuba by the numbers

January 27, 2008

Public health statistics reflect overall social well being. Educational levels, nutrition, housing, preventative health care, access to urgent care, and hopes for a decent life are all big factors in what overall health looks like. That...