March For America
A progressive immigration reform that protects the rights of both immigrant and U.S. born workers is an essential step towards the resolution of the economic crisis. That's why tens of thousands will march on Washington this weekend.
Florida Senate bill is attack on teachers
According to a proposed bill in the Florida state Senate, teachers will no longer have tenure in the upcoming school year, and it would introduce so-called merit pay.
Bipartisan Senate immigration bill looks like a bitter pill
Indications are that a new immigration reform bill with some bipartisan support will be introduced very soon in the Senate. But there are going to be some severe problems.
Double dip danger
What does the economic future hold? The commentators in business media are like fortune tellers, reading the future in a bunch of soggy tea leaves. Fewer jobs lost than expected in February? The economy must be on the mend. Rail traffic down 1.7% from a year ago? Trouble ahead.
“Ghostwriter” reveals heinous crimes
According to reviewer Jim Lane, Roman Polanski does it again with "The Ghostwriter."
Chamber of Commerce declares class war
To call it hypocrisy would be a gross understatement. So let's just call it class war. Because that's what it is.
The truth behind the death of a Cuban hunger striker
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died of respiratory failure in a Cuban hospital on February 23 after an 83 day hunger strike
Resetting U.S.-Cuba relations and the Cuban 5
Recent vindictive U.S. actions in the case of the Cuban 5 raise the question: what is holding back a change in the unconstructive policy of blockade and hostility toward Cuba?
‘The Last Station’ - we loved it and learned from it
Love, wealth, utopian ideas and looming revolution are themes in this wonderfully acted film about Tolstoy and his wife.
The real impediments to good schools
Blaming teachers' unions for the "failure" of public education is at best a red herring, at worst a cynical way to sow division.
