Republicans
State budget crises and Mr. Holland’s sorrow
January 12, 2011In the coming year, states face a combined shortfall likely to exceed $112 billion.
Read moreBattle looms on immigration and citizenship
January 10, 2011The Republican ultra right is launching a multi-pronged attack on immigrants and their families.
Read more“Show-Me Solutions” are no solution, Missouri lawmaker says
January 7, 2011Missouri's new Republican House leader declared a Republican mandate for a "change in the culture of how we operate," but a freshman lawmaker thinks otherwise.
Read morePoem of the week: Emily Dickinson and the Republicans
January 6, 2011The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives can be viewed, almost poignantly, as a death in the neighborhood, and Emily Dickinson provides a commentary.
Read moreBanning ethnic studies in Arizona is wrong!
January 4, 2011A new draconian law in Arizona went into effect banning classes statewide, k-12, that promote the teachings of civil rights leaders such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.
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