National
Commonwealth study serves health care campaign
December 2, 2008Debate on overhauling the U.S. health care system has centered on cost, administrative waste, and profiteering. Such concerns are hardly misplaced, what with 2006 health care costs rising to 16 percent of GDP, or $7,000 per...
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Americans favor ending blockade against Cuba
December 2, 2008Spurred by President-elect Barack Obama’s successful campaign and the prospects for stronger Democratic control of Congress, a new crop of analyses, statements and resolutions is emerging against Washington’s nearly half-century-long blockade of Cuba. “It’s stupid, it’s...
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Drive for jobs gets boost from blue-green alliance
December 2, 2008The Blue-Green Alliance (BGA), founded by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, has called on President-elect Barack Obama to enact a “Green New Deal” creating millions of federally-funded green jobs to head off a major...
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Federal judges accept all-expense paid junkets to right-wing conferences
November 29, 2008Federal judges were attending corporation-sponsored conferences at posh watering holes, at times on the very subjects of cases they have pending before them, a prominent law school dean wrote in a 2008 book of essays. While...
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The case of the ticking Timex turkey
November 27, 2008Jobs come, jobs go. These days they just seem to be vanishing into the ether. But back when Nixon roamed the earth, I was young, earnest and curious about the lives of working-class Americans. So I...
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