President Obama makes history - again!
In a dramatic departure from the days when workers were scorned by the White House President Obama yesterday became the first president to issue a proclamation for Workers Memorial Day.
A reality check on Wall Street
By any objective measure, Wall Street has given up its right to manage our nation's finances.
Want to become a day laborer?
Day labor status is being forced on more and more full-time American workers, whether they want it or not, and a new book tells precisely what it's like.
Answer to youth violence is jobs, not National Guard
I think it's absolutely ridiculous that two Illinois lawmakers are requesting to bring in the National Guard as a way to control youth violence.
Arizona immigration law: A civil rights catastrophe
The signing last week by Arizona's Republican Governor, Jan Brewer of SB 1070 should be a signal for action by everybody who cares about human and workers' rights.
An appeal from Arizona
Things are truly the worst here in Arizona. I was born and raised in this beautiful state. It's been a challenge but it's not been insane - til now.
Reform or revolution
Abraham Lincoln composed the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation for a cabinet meeting in July 1862.
Realizing the promise of ‘nuclear spring’
Speaking in Prague a year ago, President Obama proclaimed "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
Capitalism replaces human rights with inhuman rights
Proclaiming that "all men are born free and equal" and that government of the people arises from the citizens themselves, rather than from any "divine right," the French Revolution began a new era in human history.
Novels, memory and the Holocaust
Holocaust Remembrance Day just passed, and it got me thinking about memory and empathy.
