What happened to the War on Poverty?
With the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy and the passing of Sargent Shriver, a foot soldier in the War on Poverty, recently, I have been reading about the early 1960s and listening to speeches by King and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
State of the Union and openings for progress
The president's State of the Union speech provided openings and challenges for the labor and people's movements on jobs and economic security, peace and democratic rights.
China-U.S. summit was a win-win
Last week's White House summit meeting between President Barack Obama and China's President Hu Jintao marked an important turn in U.S.-China relations.
The national debt: Another path is possible!
Making major cuts in military spending could not only make a major dent in the national debt, but would also save many lives and put our country on the road to a new international policy of cooperation and mutual problem solving.
Thinking strategically between now and 2012
With profit margins soaring and capital and labor locked in a deadly, unequal embrace, what are working people to do?
On lessons of New Deal, GOP fails miserably
The New Deal economic recovery programs during the Great Depression of the 1930s showed how to solve economic crises without resorting to war.
Obama, triangulation and what’s our job for 2012
For Obama, triangulation makes sense, and focusing criticism on it instead of on putting together the grassroots structures for us to win in 2012 is a dead end.
Job loss not so bad?
Most people would assume that losing your job would have grave psychological effects, but a recent study claims otherwise - what's up with that?
A parting thought
With the end of the year fast approaching, I decided to join the pundits and leave one parting thought. So here goes!
Class warfare looms in 2011
We've already gotten a harbinger of the class warfare that the emboldened Republican right will wage against the people when the new Congress convenes in January.
