Editors' Blog
Labor's role in the 2010 elections
I think this will be an important time for labor and people who really support the working class to step up and take control of this election.
Hands Off Social Security
As Republican Party leaders and their mouthpieces in the conservative media weakly attempt to lie about their intentions to gut Social Security benefits and privatize the program, Sen. Bernie Sanders slams them in a recent op-ed for Politico.com.
Why Some Americans Believe Obama Is a Muslim
from "Science Daily
Book Review: The Invisible War
Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon Harvard, 359 pp, £29.95, April 2010
The Iraq withdrawal a solid administration accomplishment
The latest post by Earl Ofari Hutchinson at Huffington Post deflects what he calls unreasonable criticisms of the President's Iraq policy from the left.
Marxism, Mosques, and Mockery
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the New York Islamic Cultural Center
Beck, Palin, and the Desescration of History
There is a very old saying, attributed to Voltaire, that "history is a pack of tricks played on the dead." That should be applied directly to the "rally" being held in Washington on the 47th anniversary of the most significant rally ever held in the nation's capital---the 1963 March on Washington.
Born in the U.S.A. Is What Makes Someone American
by Eric Foner