Opinion

DeLay proposes sending Abramoff to Pluto

January 27, 2006

As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft waited on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral to embark on a nine-and-a-half year mission to Pluto, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) took to the floor of the House of Representative to...

Bush official: Mine safety not my priority

January 27, 2006

news analysis President Bush’s Mine Safety and Health chief David Dye shocked senators from both parties when he got up and left in the middle of a Jan. 23 Senate hearing on the West Virginia mining...

In Chicago, cuts in AIDS funding increase misery

January 22, 2006

The cuts in AIDS funding are already being felt by local agencies. The Ryan White CARE Act was flat funded in the last budget. The word on the street is that they will be focusing on...

A popular look at physics today

January 20, 2006

A Briefer History of Time By Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow Bantam, 2005 Hardcover, 176 pp., $25 If you aren’t a scientist but seek to understand the latest theories of physics, then this book is for...

Nuts and bolts of exploitation

January 20, 2006

Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences By James Lardner and David A. Smith, editors Published by Demos/The New Press, 2006 Hardcover, 328 pp., $25.95 A handful of American intellectuals actually...