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Banks profit drive spurs student loan scandal

April 20, 2007

Each month, Jennifer Pae, forks over hundreds of dollars in payments on $40,000 in student loans she owes for her education at the University of California, San Diego. Pae, president of the United States Student Association...

States weigh in vs. Iraq war

April 20, 2007

The cost is hitting home, and legislatures are speaking up The Iraq war’s devastating toll is leading a growing number of state legislatures to join the debate. They are discussing and passing resolutions that pay tribute...

Calls for gun control grow as nation mourns Va. Killings

April 20, 2007 By Tim Wheeler

As the nation mourned the April 16 shooting deaths of 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech, calls mounted for action to curb handguns like the weapons used by the gunman. Kaye Tice, a leader...

Celebrating the archives of the Communist press

April 13, 2007 By Teresa Albano

If I were to list only a fraction of the names of the thousands of people who wrote for, or cartooned for or in other ways supported the Daily Worker, Western Worker, Daily World, People’s World,...

EDITORIAL: Taxes: for what? from whom?

April 13, 2007

It’s tax season. But what, exactly, does our tax bill pay for? For one, the $161 billion the Bush administration is spending in the coming year on the immiseration of Iraq and Afghanistan. Given that astronomical...