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A history lesson for Karl Rove

December 10, 2004

Karl Rove, Bush’s chief propagandist, likes to think of himself as a new Mark Hanna. Who was Mark Hanna, and is Rove right? Karl Marx once wrote that the U.S. represented a “pure” form of capitalism,...

21st century book-burning

December 10, 2004

Opinions One of the marks of authoritarian regimes is their effort to stop the spread of knowledge and free speech. In May 1933, Nazi sympathizers in Berlin burned 20,000 “degenerate” books, many of them written by...

Texas: unhealthy changes for children

December 10, 2004

Opinion Viridiana Herrera is a freshman at the University of Texas and the first person in her family to attend college. For the last three years, she led her high school’s efforts to sign up hundreds...

Social Security under Bush attack: Your parents will be living with you!

December 10, 2004 By Annie Fox

As long ago as the early 1930s, through the Townsend movement and other efforts, our parents and grandparents (and a few of us) fought for a pension plan for people 65 and older. The U.S. was...

Cuba: 20 years of family doctors

December 10, 2004

When revolutionaries change the changes that came with revolution, that’s a “revolution within a revolution.” That’s how a director of the World Health Organization described Cuba’s turn 20 years ago to “comprehensive general medicine.” The Cuban...