Rights and Democracy
The Stakes Are High for Latino Workers This Labor Day
Across the United States, Labor Day marks the end of summer, and a day off from the job for the lucky ones. We often forget that this holiday originated from strife, not leisure. Labor Day finally only became a national holiday to celebrate America’s workers only because when workers rose up to demanded it.
Much Ado about Non-News Stories
The tea party tempest unleashed by the First Lady’s mid-summer vacation–only Marie Antoinette would have left her husband alone on his birthday, apparently–is a function of the August news cycle.
See Newt Run
Oh, please, Santa Claus, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Care
The glacial progress toward equality for gay Americans offers some revealing looks at our society. One is the weakening hold of religion, Roman Catholicism in particular. Until recently church bias against homosexuals was plainly understood, unspoken, unchallenged, and accepted.
The Lineup: Week of August 23-29, 2010
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Fatherless Children
You know things aren’t going well when your life story turns into romantic comedies. I guess it beats tragedies, but still…
Five Years after Katrina
Five years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the botched recovery effort that followed, Congress has yet to ensure that survivors of future disasters on the Gulf Coast or elsewhere won’t face the nightmare that still prevents tens of thousands of former residents from returning to the Gulf states. The BP oil disaster is further compounding the consequences of that inept response.
Mosque of Liberty
We would do well to remember why America as a nation exists at all: The early colonists from Europe fled the tyranny of monarchs who could tell them whom, how, whether, when, and where they could worship.
Addressing the Scourge of Rape on Tribal Lands
More than one in three Native women will be raped in their lifetime–86 percent of them by non-Native perpetrators. Indigenous women are 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women in the United States.
We’re Not Colorblind
Tea partiers get upset when you call them racists. “We’re not racists,” they yell. “We’re God-fearing Americans who don’t like Obama’s socialist, affirmative-action ways. We just want freedom from government interference in a colorblind society.”
