While the looming economic recession may have displaced the country's broken health care system and the Iraq war as the top concern for Americans in recent weeks, universal, affordable access to health care remains a vital issue for voters.

The McCain campaign struggled to present a coherent message on taxes this past week. During the vice presidential debate, Thursday, Oct. 2, Sarah Palin said, "Barack Obama had 94 opportunities to side on the people's side and reduce taxes..."

Some members of the rebel faction that recently fought government troops in North Darfur have signed a peace agreement with the state, but the accord is insignificant because none of the signatories has any clout.

John McCain was right about one thing. Jobs are being lost. This week the Department of Labor reported that 159,000 American workers lost their jobs in September, a five-year record. The Labor Department reported the ninth straight month of job losses, approaching 800,000 lost jobs in 2008.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – In what has been perceived as a major concession, the McCain campaign announced this week that it would be pulling its campaign resources out of Michigan in order to shift to other battleground states.

The same day that Joe Biden was selected as candidate for the vice presidency by the Democratic Party, the campaign of John McCain reproduced several videos of Hillary Clinton sharply attacking Obama.

As mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin required women to pay for their own rape examinations, charges a new TV ad by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

The week of September 29th, 2008 opened with the failure in Congress of the Bush bailout plan. Ongoing opposition to a Wall Street bailout without preconditions may have major repercussions. Read below.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Barack Obama emphasized the need to bail out working families not just Wall Street at a campaign stop here, Thursday, Oct. 2.

Indigenous Mixtec farm workers in a crew of migrants from the Mexican state of Guerrero pick avocados on the Parks ranch in Goleta, on the California coast near Santa Barbara.

We all loved his collaboration with folk-rocking band Wilco that produced the two-disk Mermaid Avenue collection of reproduced Woodie Guthrie songs. Many of his albums from Workers Playtime to William Bloke are must haves for any progressive's music collection.

The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country!

The turmoil in financial markets and the bailout to the tune of $700 billion has turned the public eye and wrath on Wall Street and Washington. While millions are aware of the triggering causes, ranging from predatory lending to deregulation to insatiable greed, what isn’t so obvious is the longer-term process.

Monday saw the collapse of the second, minimally-revised bailout package in the House of Representatives. There was tremendous pressure exerted by George W. Bush in a shock-and-awe doomsday scenario reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq War.

More than a Wall Street bailout is needed to end the current financial crisis and restore economic growth, Barack Obama told supporters in Reno, Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the University of Nevada.

Except for natural disasters such as the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, or the sinking of a ferry with hundreds of victims, nobody notices what's going on in the Philippines today.

On many occasions PM Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan have told the Australian people that the Australian economy is sound — better than other similar countries in the world.