Opinion
Health care for all means immigrants, too
June 12, 2009Any health care legislation being drafted in Congress should meet the goal of covering all people in America, including immigrants who are not citizens and immigrants who are undocumented. People in these categories make up a...
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Racism: Look whos talking
June 12, 2009Right-wing commentators and politicians have been railing against racism. Have they finally seen the folly of their ways? Are they criticizing their fellow right-wingers for spreading racist pollution via talk shows and corporate suites? Sadly, no....
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BOOK REVIEW: Painting, poetry and song combine for breathtaking read
June 12, 2009BOOKREVIEW Wandering Star Translated by C. Dickson Curbstone Press, 2008, 360 pp. If a Romare Bearden painting, a Pablo Neruda poem and a Billie Holiday blues song were by means of an arcane alchemy combined to...
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COMMENTARY Obama at Buchenwald buries Reagan past
June 11, 2009President Obama is back from his trip abroad. It was a remarkable tour, during which he spoke of peace, democracy and progress, and then, in Germany, he confronted some of the greatest crimes against humanity ever...
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Obama in Cairo a profound message for Americans
June 10, 2009“Americans have been constantly redefining their national identity from the moment of first contact on the Virginia shore,” historian Ronald Takaki wrote. When our first African American president addressed the Arab and Muslim peoples of the...
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