NATO protest reflections: Winning tactics vs. dead ends
One by one, they threw their medals toward the generals and statesmen behind the high barricades surrounding the NATO Summit in Chicago.
Did Dharun Ravi verdict bring justice for Tyler Clementi?
Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, where I have taught for 41 years, committed suicide.
Florida’s Orange County OKs domestic partnerships
Orange County, Fla., home of Walt Disney World, became the second county in Central Florida to pass a domestic partnership ordinance.
The new health care law and you – Ask a doc!
A group of physicians here has formed a speakers bureau dubbed, "The New Healthcare Law and You - Ask a Doc!"
Activists abuzz over Bayer’s bee killing
Some 90+ activists gathered in San Pablo Park in West Berkeley, California, near where one of the Bayer facilities was located, to protest the company's insect-killing.
Immigrant rights activists say keep families together
Vargas, the father of four U.S. citizen children, has led a crime free life but now sits in a Monroe County jail.
In the “other Chicago,” mental health patients out of options
Millions gathered in the Windy City for the NATO summit. But over in the "other Chicago" - the inner city, Latino and African American-majority neighborhoods, people are suffering.
Massachusetts: job creation up, unemployment down
Perhaps the nation's most Democratic and liberal state, Massachusetts has experienced months of declining unemployment rates.
Latina moms in Chicago: “We’re done crying!”
Except for one grandmother, the rest of the 20 or so women who patrol the streets around Davis Elementary School here every weekday are in their 20s and 30s.
VIDEO Depicted as gorilla, African American doctor sues UCLA for racism
A respected African American faculty surgeon filed a racial discrimination suit against the UCLA Medical Center and UC Regents after they refused to take action on blatant acts of racism.
