"Small government" ideas promote big business practices
In April 2010, RNC Chairman Michael Steele told a group of 200 students at DePaul University that African-Americans "don't have a reason" to vote for Republican candidates.
Bosses, workers, Elmo: amazing films at Traverse City festival
Here's a wrap-up of highlights from the 7th Annual Traverse City Film Festival that were not mentioned in previous columns.
The Republicans must be defeated
If the GOP regains all three branches of the government, the crisis of human suffering can and will become far more severe.
Rahm Emanuel’s first 100 days: new style, same substance
After 100 days on the job, new Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is touting his administration's first accomplishments. The impression is one of boldly charting a new course of change.
15 years after welfare “deform”
Aided by a Republican Congress and bitterly divided Democratic Party, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.
It’s complicated: President Obama and mass movement building
The building of a mass movement on the scale of the 1930s or 1960s is a complicated process, despite the many-sided problems today's movement has the potential to eclipse them.
Monument to freedom
The idea of a memorial to Dr. King was first proposed 27 years ago. His monument is the first on the National Mall not dedicated to a president.
The Beer Evolution: New yeast discovered in Patagonian forest
Beer has a history of working-class identity and is now experiencing a revolution of its own, on the microbiological level.
Libya: NATO sets dangerous precedent
Rebel troops have broken through to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The NATO intervention has been decisive, and that should trouble us.
The Strauss-Kahn dismissal: Blaming the victim, again
For a while, it looked like the victim might have her day in court, and win justice.
