Opinion

State of the Union and openings for progress

January 28, 2011 By Sam Webb

The president's State of the Union speech provided openings and challenges for the labor and people's movements on jobs and economic security, peace and democratic rights.

China-U.S. summit was a win-win

January 28, 2011 By Sam Webb

Last week's White House summit meeting between President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao marked an important turn in U.S.-China relations.

The national debt: Another path is possible!

January 27, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Making major cuts in military spending could not only make a major dent in the national debt, but would also save many lives and put our country on the road to a new international policy of...

UN human rights body should be defended

January 25, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Like so many other initiatives of the tea party-infused Republican right, the push to leave - and even destroy - the Human Rights Council is wrong.

Ohio tea party rep needs history lesson

January 25, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Tea party leaders and the ultra-right need a lesson in history when it comes to our Founding Fathers who were not only revolutionaries in deed, but many held far-reaching democratic ideas that the tea-baggers would denounce...