Analysis
Try paying for your dialysis with 50 shares of bankrupt auto stock
June 14, 2009Once upon a time, when a company went bankrupt, everyone took a hit: workers lost wages, stockholders got killed and the creditors got only tiny bits of what was left. The law guaranteed that it would...
Read moreHealth care for all means immigrants, too
June 12, 2009Any health care legislation being drafted in Congress should meet the goal of covering all people in America, including immigrants who are not citizens and immigrants who are undocumented. People in these categories make up a...
Read moreRacism: Look whos talking
June 12, 2009Right-wing commentators and politicians have been railing against racism. Have they finally seen the folly of their ways? Are they criticizing their fellow right-wingers for spreading racist pollution via talk shows and corporate suites? Sadly, no....
Read moreBOOK REVIEW: Painting, poetry and song combine for breathtaking read
June 12, 2009BOOKREVIEW Wandering Star Translated by C. Dickson Curbstone Press, 2008, 360 pp. If a Romare Bearden painting, a Pablo Neruda poem and a Billie Holiday blues song were by means of an arcane alchemy combined to...
Read moreCOMMENTARY Obama at Buchenwald buries Reagan past
June 11, 2009President Obama is back from his trip abroad. It was a remarkable tour, during which he spoke of peace, democracy and progress, and then, in Germany, he confronted some of the greatest crimes against humanity ever...
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