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OPINION: Ramming through the bailout

September 24, 2008

Bush, Paulson make Dillinger look like a Boy Scout As the Bush administration attempts to ram a bailout package of nearly one trillion dollars through Congress, it begins to feel like Colonel Sanders asking the public...

OPINION: The Rosenberg case revisited: heroes and betrayers

September 24, 2008 By Susan Webb

The ugly days of the 1950s witchhunts returned to the headlines this month, hitting me in a very personal way.

OPINION: A dose of ‘socialism’ to forestall financial disaster

September 20, 2008

It's easy to become apocalyptic contemplating the vast sums of wealth being destroyed in the unfolding financial crisis gripping Wall Street. The economic tsunami unleashed there will soon reach every corner of the nation. Indeed globalization...

To help everyone, lift the blockade

September 20, 2008

The world has watched with enormous admiration as storm-battered Cuba pulls itself together after the unprecedented devastation of Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Despite immense losses to agriculture, industry, housing and infrastructure, loss of life was...

EDITORIAL: Bail out Main Street

September 20, 2008

The largest crisis in U.S. financial history shook the foundations of Wall Street this week. The aftershocks of the earthquake that toppled the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers investment bank, Merrill Lynch and the AIG insurance giant —...