Opinion
Candidates who value families will win in November
July 1, 2008Workers’ Correspondence The candidates who demonstrate to voters that they value families will win in the November elections. That’s quite a reversal from the 1980s, when the conservative agenda began to be packaged as “family values.”...
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EDITORIAL: FISA filibuster
July 1, 2008The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved by a vote of 293-129 a compromise bill reauthorizing warrantless electronic spying on the American people under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). About 50 Democrats joined the...
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EDITORIAL: Talk to Iran
July 1, 2008Earlier this month, members of Congress joined a wide range of groups in a “Time to Talk to Iran” event on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers say they are being inundated by a “drumbeat of war” from “neo-con”-type...
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What Obama didnt say on Fathers Day
June 24, 2008In a widely acclaimed speech at an African American church on Chicago’s South Side to commemorate Father’s Day, Barack Obama gave a presentation that, while acknowledging the racial challenges of the past, gave great weight to...
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EDITORIAL:Summer job blues
June 24, 2008Youth joblessness is reaching record highs this summer, hitting 66 percent nationwide (the highest since unemployment data was first collected in the 1960s). These numbers rise dramatically for African American youth, who in Chicago face an...
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