AS I watch Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention tonight, I will be remembering another speech: the one that made Martin Luther King cry. And I will be thinking: Mr. Obama’s speech… Read more »
Last weekend, Pastor Rick Warren asked both presidential candidates to define the income at which “you move from middle class to rich.” The context of the question was, of course, the difference in the candidates’ tax policies. Barack Obama wants … Read more »
Progressive political change in American history is rarely incremental. With important exceptions, most of the reforms that have advanced our nation’s status as a modern, liberalizing social democracy were pushed through during narrow windows of progressive opportunity — which subsequently … Read more »
Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.That insight from Gorka, one of my favorite singer/songwriters chronicling the complexity of our times, … Read more »
“Why do the troops hate the troops?”
Honestly, after years of hearing that if you don’t support the Bush military policy, you don’t support the troops, you have to wonder what the neo-cons will do now. Today, a study by … Read more »
The Arctic Hotel in Ilulissat, Greenland, is a charming little place on the West Coast, but no one would ever confuse it for a Four Seasons… Read more »
A new Center for American Progress report released today — Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got Into This Mess In the First Place — documents “the extraordinary transfer of wealth that took place between ordinary households and the extremely well-to-do and … Read more »
On Dec. 14, 2003, the London Sunday Telegraph published an explosive front-page story headlined, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.'” The proof was a July 1, 2001, letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence, Tahir Jalil Habbush, … Read more »
A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to … Read more »
Take gas prices, the most pressing issue on the minds of Americans. Offer a blatant ploy that in fact won’t help… Read more »
