USA

By Natalie Kitroeff From The New York Times NEW YORK - Elaine Díaz may be the most important Cuban dissident you’ve never heard of. But that is perhaps because she…
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By Steve Benen From The Maddow blog Why do I marvel at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)? Largely because of quotes like these. "The biggest obstacle to passing common sense immigration reform…
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Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution By Daniel Ellsberg From The Guardian (U.K.) In my…
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By Maureen Dowd From The New York Times WASHINGTON — THE acid that corroded George W. Bush’s presidency was fear — spreading it and succumbing to it. You could see the…
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USA Rice Federation From Western Farm Press In a meeting hosted by USDA and economists from the University of Havana and the University of Florida, USA Rice Federation learned that…
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By Glenn Greenwald From the British newspaper The Guardian The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of…
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By Erika Eichelberger, Maggie Severns and Brett Brownell From Mother Jones If you're one of the 37 million Americans with student loan debt, you're in for a real treat come July 1.…
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By Bill Press Say it ain't so. There has never been a sadder day in American politics. Political reporters are still in shock over Michele Bachmann's sudden announcement that she…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - Today’s reactionary Republican Party isn’t given to literary flights of fancy. But its latest assault on the tattered remains of the always…
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By Saul Landau My parents, like many millions more who voted for Franklin Roosevelt and ousted Republican Herbert Hoover, sat glued to their radios to hear FDR’s first…
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