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A report from the health care wars
September 12, 2009Doors were scheduled to open at 6:00 and though I arrived by 4:15, 300 people were already in line. A certain tension was in the air, as Rep. Gary Peters, a first-term Democrat in Michigan’s 9th...
Read moreTake a stand for democracy
September 10, 2009At noon next Tuesday, Sept. 8, the president will speak via live video to schoolchildren across our country. He will be welcoming them back to school, and urging them “to take personal responsibility for their own...
Read moreDouble-header for Labor Day
September 8, 2009On Labor Day, the working people of the U.S. and all their allies stand poised to win two historic battles — one that ends the national shame of 50 million people living without health insurance, and...
Read moreLETTERS, September 5, 2009
September 5, 2009Way ahead of tea-baggers We have to fight Funny story Role of the left
Read moreMcCain wins White House!
September 3, 2009A year ago on Labor Day, the nightmare scenario described in the headline above was still a real possibility. Labor and its allies went on to make sure that something quite different unfolded, but what if...
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