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DECEMBER 21, 2007, 2:00 am
Fall was supposed to be make or break time for President George W. Bush's war policy. It hasn't been. In September, the much-anticipated Petraeus Report was expected to tie up the loose ends of the Iraq war, demonstrating progress and providing new direRead more »
DECEMBER 20, 2007, 2:00 am
The Bush administration's assault on organized labor is well-known, as the current union organization system is tilted against America's workers. Each year, over 20,000 U.S. workers are illegally fired, demoted, laid off, suspended without pay, or denieRead more »
DECEMBER 20, 2007, 2:00 am
The American military command in Iraq is regularly sponsoring 19 focus group consultations, conducted by outside contractors, in five Iraqi cities. The findings are presented to General David Petraeus as part of the Battle Update Assessment his staff compRead more »
DECEMBER 19, 2007, 2:00 am
Today, President Bush will sign the historic Energy Independence and Security Act, which will raise vehicle fuel efficiency by nearly 30 percent by 2020 and mandate a massive increase in the use of biofuels.Read more »
DECEMBER 19, 2007, 2:00 am
As readers of this column know, I have a rule that there is a simple way to test whether any Arab-Israeli peace deal is real or not: If you need a Middle East expert to explain it to you, it's not real.Read more »
DECEMBER 18, 2007, 2:00 am
Wall Street banks are an honest audit away from bankruptcy. Housing prices are plummeting at rates not seen since the Great Depression. Mortgage foreclosures are ravaging neighborhoods and knee-capping state and local budgets. Incomes decline even as theRead more »
DECEMBER 18, 2007, 2:00 am
Today, Bush-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin rammed through a 3-2 partisan vote to remove the longstanding "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning TV and radio stations in tRead more »
DECEMBER 18, 2007, 2:00 am
Every day in the United States, 10,000 young people acquire a sexually-transmitted disease. Teen pregnancy rates in this country are rising, and 2.5 million people worldwide contracted HIV in 2007.Read more »
DECEMBER 16, 2007, 2:00 am
The negotiators at the United Nations climate conference here in Bali came from almost 200 countries and spoke almost as many languages, but driving them all to find a better way to address climate change was one widely shared, if unspoken, sentiment...Read more »
DECEMBER 14, 2007, 2:00 am
For the second time in three months, President Bush yesterday vetoed bipartisan legislation that "would have expanded the State Children's Health Insurance (SCHIP) program "by $35 billion over five years and would have boosted its enrollment to about 1Read more »
DECEMBER 14, 2007, 2:00 am
Hoping to replicate the successful Jewish-Christian outreach of the past 50 years, a group of mainstream rabbis and imams is launching an ambitious attempt to forge a national dialogue between American Jews and Muslims.Read more »
DECEMBER 11, 2007, 2:00 am
The man whom the people elected in 2000 to be president was in the temporary residence of the man whom the Supreme Court anointed. President George W. Bush hosted former Vice-President Al Gore, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and five other Nobel laureatRead more »
