| Apr 12, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyI recently visited Cuba. Fidel’s image is everywhere–on fences, building façades, barroom walls–you name it. Posters touting “52 years of the Revolution” are plentiful. Ché Guevara is a god–he’s memorialized in a giant...
| | Peace / SecurityIt’s been 20 years since President George H. W. Bush and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev declared the Cold War over. Yet the lengthy process of dismantling U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles continues to illustrate the deep chill that prevailed...
| | Rights / DemocracyGot our leaderInto power,Why does life,Still seem so sour? Since Obama’s election, a destructive new thread in conservative commentary has emerged: “Blacks have finally arrived. We don’t need to concern ourselves with ‘them’ anymore. If...
| | Environment / HealthKeep talking, Rush–we love ya man! Rush Limbaugh, that is–the radio rattlebrain who led the right-wing’s air attack on Barack Obama’s health-care reform campaign. Spewing venom, spittle, and ignorance, Limbaugh used his microphone like a cattle...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe Catholic Church didn’t just celebrate Easter this year, it re-enacted it. The main difference between the Church’s ordeal and The Passion of the Christ is that the Church’s wounds are largely self-inflicted. The sexual abuse scandal that began in...
