Nickels' Hand Is in the Till Again
The city is $24 million in the hole, mainly because city budget planners didn't do their jobs late last year when they drew up the biennial budget....
Maria Tomchick

Drawing the Lines
Quietly, the same week that most voters ignored last month's primary election, a court ruling threw onto the November ballot a local initiative far...
Geov Parrish

Emerging Democratic Majority? Why Judis and Teixeira are Wrong
In their recently acclaimed book, "The Emerging Democratic Majority," John Judis and Ruy Teixeira make the case that long-term demographic trends...
Steven Hill

The Nuremberg Election
Has the militarization of the United States really come to this? One of the more depressing themes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--particularly...
Geov Parrish

Iraq: The Money Pit
A mere week after the Bush administration announced it would privatize Iraq's infrastructure, the plan has been put on hold. Perhaps someone in the...
Maria Tomchick

Beyond the Pale
It is, apparently, Off-Their-Meds Week in Washington and London. First we had Jack Straw, in attempting to justify the war on Iraq despite the...
Eddie Tews

Patriotic Hate Mail
I received an email this week from "friends," entitled "Patriotic Duty." This was the text of the email: "MARK YOUR CALENDARS. We all know that it...
Kirsten Anderberg

The Guns and Dope Party
"Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody"--The Guns and Dope Party official motto. I've been watching the...
Troy Skeels

Focus On The Corporation
Nike Gets a Pass Why did Marc Kasky settle his case against Nike for a $1.5 million payment to the Fair Labor Association, a group controlled by...
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Backtalk
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