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Whitewashing television news

This election season, there is a glaring — and inexcusable — paucity of Black voices on TV news programs. Considering the historic moment at hand — a world in crisis and the United States facing a...

A losing strategy to save auto jobs

Last month my wife and I went to the North American International Auto Show. For Detroiters, this is an annual pilgrimage. Where else can you sit behind the wheel of a $110,000 Maserati when you can’t...

Letters – March 8, 2008

Don’t cut afterschool programsThe president’s budget proposal includes a one-two punch aimed right at the heart of afterschool programs. He calls for cutting federal afterschool funding by 27 percent and for reorganizing the current federal program...

True costs of war

True costs of war Just in time for the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new book by economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes attempts to project the real cost of the war....