Opinion
EDITORIAL:Summer job blues
June 24, 2008Youth joblessness is reaching record highs this summer, hitting 66 percent nationwide (the highest since unemployment data was first collected in the 1960s). These numbers rise dramatically for African American youth, who in Chicago face an...
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EDITORIAL: Sexism is poison
June 24, 2008With the windup of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, much attention has been focused on the role of sexism in our national discourse. Some of the discussion has sought to pit sexism against racism, suggesting that racism...
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Desolation in Myanmar
June 14, 2008In the aftermath of a major natural disaster, the ongoing tragedy that is playing out in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is unnecessary and criminal. The military junta, which had initially withheld relief aid from reaching...
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A river walk and garden for the ages
June 14, 2008The man was well dressed, one might even say dapper. He moved to the front of the packed room with a professorial air. Born of the 19th century and known for his advocacy for social justice,...
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Why are oil prices going through the roof?
June 3, 2008As she watched the numbers flick upward while filling her car at a gas station in Providence, R.I., the other day, a woman turned to another customer with a grimace and said, “I told my kids...
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