Editors' Blog
Broadly speaking: Republicans refuse to aid displaced workers
The Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which helps workers displaced by free trade policies, is expiring and House Republicans have refused to schedule a vote on it. After losing control over their caucus on the Patriot Act vote earlier this week, they realize if a TAA extension had an up or...
More on Egypt: Sec. Clinton Interview with NPR
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Egyptian Artists and Intellectuals Demand Mubarak Step Down
Under the title “The solution to the Crisis begins with the Stepping Down of Mubarak,” a group of intellectuals, artists and writers signed a statement demanding the stepping down of Mubarak right now as the only solution to the current crisis and turmoil.
21st Century Socialism is 21st Century Democracy
If we focus COMPLETELY on the democratic tasks before the working people, socialism will take care of itself in due course.
Amazing Egyptian Revolution
(05 Feb 2010) Following some good comments on the revolution but some strange references to its universalism (that is not shared by the west even though it is its humanist philosophy) by the apparent 'Elvis of cultural theory' (Zizek), and earlier preparations by Merkel of Germany, the UK PM David Cameron responds to the peoples uprising in Egypt with a diatribe against multiculturalism in the name of universalism.
AFL-CIO response to unemployment numbers
It is certainly good news that the unemployment rate dropped for the second consecutive month to 9%, but the current level of job growth is nowhere near sufficient to sustain robust economic growth and put back to work the millions of American workers whose lives have been put on hold.
Broadly Speaking: Comments on Republican Efforts to Erode 14th Amendment
Anti-immigrant, anti-Latino Republicans in Congress and in state laegislatures across the country have vowed to eliminate provisions in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that guarantee citizenship to "all persons born in the U.S." Below is a collection of recent statements and commentary from a wide range of groups – left and right – that oppose such a move.
