Where is the next Milton Rogovin? Gage Gallery opens Working-Class Eye exhibit
Crowd packs Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery Jan. 20 for the opening of "The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin."
Nelson Mandela's conversations - a review
"Conversations with Myself" provides the clearest glimpse yet into the mind of a man who is by nature private and reserved.
Tea party movement's new politics: dangerous shape-shifting
The usual norms of political discourse would emphasize a party's ability to ask pertinent questions and provide salient answers; to probe facts, poll members and seek solutions based largely on consensus or majority sentiment. Today's politics seem based on contradiction, on a party-constituency dynamic that turns the norms of political discourse on its head.
What we can learn from the elections
The "tea party movement" is neither "populist," or new; nor was it as I see it, a major factor inthe GOP victory. So what was?
Constitutional amendment for right to work needed
Given the worst losses for the Democrats in Congress in the last 50 years, some serious rethinking seems called for.
CPUSA leader: Vote and build the movement
Jarvis Tyner, national executive vice-chair CPUSA, spoke in Detroit recently on the need to for left and progressive minded people to help insure a huge voter turnout for the midterm election.
Election stakes couldn't be higher
Just like they did when President Obama was running for the White House, the Republican/ tea party candidates are throwing the kitchen sink again at Democrats
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Unemployed Man!
Ultimatum, a superhero who fights negative attitudes with platitudes, ("Stop blaming others and start blaming yourself!"), runs afoul of his Board of Directors and becomes Unemployed Man.
Alaska tea party candidate: a study in contradictions
Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller of Alaska has stirred up controversy recently. He is the Tea Party favorite, Palin backed, and it's no surprise that he believes everything the federal government provides is negative.
Time for U.S. to exonerate Rosenbergs, new book shows
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, parents of two young children, were executed on June 19,1953, but the case has refused to die.
