The populist upheaval where is it headed and who can lead?
The populist outrage over AIG bonuses, and bailouts that seem to pay off the perpetrators of the financial crisis — while millions are left out of work with no medical benefits, and unemployment benefits running out long before job growth returns — is heading towards a social and political, not just economic, tipping point.
Editorial: The battle over health care
The White House health care reform summit March 5 set a new tone and scope for the struggle to fix our broken system.
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Prevent SS meeting in Latvia The boss’ Armageddon Landmines and cluster weapons Dental care crisis Crooks Spanish Civil War vet dies
Letters: Deliver mail, not fighter jets and more
Deliver mail, not fighter jets William Pomeroy On diplomacy ‘Cadillac Records’ review Fair treatment on immigration
Peanut butter crisis
Once again the Bush-stacked and -stymied Food and Drug Administration is asleep on the job in its duty to protect the people from poisoned foods and drugs. Salmonella-tainted peanut butter produced by Georgia-based Peanut Corporation of America has killed eight people and sickened 19,000, a majority of them children, in 43 states.
People Before Profits: Falling off a cliff
Last September, employment in the United States fell off a cliff. It is still falling. The economy had been losing jobs since the beginning of 2008, and the pace has been accelerating since the summer. Over the last three months, 1.8 million jobs were lost. That's an annual rate of 5 percent, the worst since 1975. Just under 3 million jobs were lost in all of 2008, but we are on track to beat that before June of this year.
Lincoln and Darwin: Bicentennial for two great emancipators
Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, has been much on our minds recently as Barack Obama moved into the White House. Exactly 200 years after Lincoln’s birth, Obama’s presidency is one fulfillment of the work Lincoln started.
Not just a few rotten apples
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and other commentators have been having a field day with John Thain.
A day to remember: The inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America
It was a day to remember. The two million people, who showed up in Washington on Jan. 20, constituted a most important demonstration of the 21st century and symbolized the start of a new era in our country and perhaps the world.
Editorial: Time for a change on Cuba
Among the new opportunities that the election of a new president and Congress brings us is to end once and for all the vicious U.S. economic blockade and travel ban imposed on Cuba nearly 50 years ago.
