Opinion

EDITORIAL: A Change America platform

July 26, 2008

Under the title “Listening to America,” the Obama campaign issued an open invitation to voters to organize meetings in their homes, union halls, churches and schools this month to discuss what planks should be added to...

EDITORIAL: Hungry for change

July 18, 2008

Karl Marx once noted, “The rate of profit is the motive power of capitalist production. Things are produced only as long as they can be produced with a profit.” Does this apply to food? Every day...

EDITORIAL: A welcome pledge

July 18, 2008

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States had the chance to do something good and right, Barack Obama said in a major Iraq policy speech this week. But a failure of leadership and ideas...

LETTERS: July 19

July 18, 2008

Speaking out for Nader In every publication of PWW articles are written about government lies, crimes, injustices, breaches of the Constitution, illegal surveillances, government-assisted profit scams and on and on. I also am reading in the...

Texas agency defies history

July 18, 2008

A fruitful way to understand the fanatical efforts of America’s right wing is to realize that they want to turn back the clock and the calendar. Their efforts are clearest within the Texas Education Agency, where...