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 Editorial from The New York Times  Shrill political attacks have saturated the airwaves for months, but behind them is the real problem of this demoralizing election: the dark flow of…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com It is Halloween night as I write this. Could there be a better time to reflect on the horrors that await this country should the widespread…
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By Saul Landau  Walking into a San Francisco bar, I saw Chico, a guy I knew in the 1960s. We had run into each other at anti-war marches, sit-ins for equal hiring practices and other…
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An analysis of documents and records show that private prisons helped draft and pass Arizona’ SB 1070. Click to hear the audio:
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President Barack Obama discussed the issues, his administration's accomplishments and the problems all presidents face. What follows is the interview with Jon Stewart of The Daily Show…
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LETTER TO DONNA SHALALA, PRESIDENT OF THE UM Honorable Donna E. Shalala, President University of Miami Dear President Shalala, We, U.S. academics and University of Miami alumni, are…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com For the last year, the Iraq war had become almost invisible in the eyes of the American media and the U.S. public. The reasons include the…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau We sat in the waiting room with eight other people, all black or Latino, while prison authorities “counted” -- presumably -- the prisoners. An hour and…
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By Paul Krugman From The New York Times This is what happens when you need to leap over an economic chasm -- but either can’t or won’t jump far enough, so that you only get part of…
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By Bill Press Ah, 1992. "The Year of the Woman." We remember it well. And how proud we were. To see the number of women in the U.S. Senate triple: from two to six. From California,…
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