Opinion
Writing on Amtrak
March 20, 2014Soon we'd be snaking through the freight yards and pulling into the Amtrak platform at L.A.'s Union Station. It was a dramatic opening scene - almost cinematic - filled with promise.
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Melba Hernandez, 93; leader of the Cuban Revolution
March 20, 2014On Mar. 9, Cuba and the world lost a remarkable revolutionary figure, Melba Hernandez Rey, age 93. The cause of death was complications of diabetes.
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Do we need public education?
March 18, 2014The public pays for charter schools through their taxes, has no input into their educational practices. Unlike Chicago public schools, neither parents nor community control anything a charter school does.
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Tony Benn: British labor giant dies
March 17, 2014Tony leaves behind the books and wonderful diaries he wrote and the enormous admiration and the friendship of millions of people.
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Straight talk on the U.S. and Ukraine
March 17, 2014It's been interesting to observe the large numbers of people who suddenly think they're experts on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine - both those on the left and the right.
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