Racism and counter-revolution: Cuba and Haiti
U.S. media reports have cast Haitian earthquake survivors as potentially violent. Like Afro-Cuban rebels before them, they were scorned.
Stock market gets giddy over Massachusetts
The stock market might not be a useful economic indicator, but at times it just might be an indicator of the class struggle.
Evolution: ‘Theory’ is fact
Right-wing attacks by the likes of Bill O'Reilly are exactly why Richard Dawkins wrote this entertaining and enlightening book.
The Obama challenge to the banks
The president has taken a decidedly more combative, populist tone. It's time.
Thousands gather to commemorate a legend
Thousands from all corners of North Texas gathered to remember a man who lifted a nation into the fight for equality.
Setting the record straight
Some on the left say the Communist Party USA has no differences with President Obama. Just to set the record straight: we do, and we express them, but we go to great lengths to state them in a constructive and unifying way.
Families endure health care ‘crucible of pain’
My 88-year-old mom, who fell and broke her arm some eight weeks ago, had to endure a two-pronged battle - with herself and with the health care system.
Mass. confusion
Whether or not Martha Coakley wins the Senate seat today in Massachusetts, the battle for the interpretation of what it all means is already underway.
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That’s what we need!
Diehard conservatives - mostly Republicans - are willing to let the elderly, the disabled and the children die, while they themselves do nothing but scream, "No new taxes!"
Three schools of thought on financial reform
There is going to be a real problem moving ordinary people into action on any financial reform that does not a) restore their lost pensions, or b) give them back their foreclosed home.
