It will take more than President Barack Obama’s tenure to vanquish American prejudice and racial injustice. — by Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins Having an African-American president is convenient. It boosts U.S. credibility in the Global South and makes us
Sequestration, the Pentagon, and the States offers selected state-level briefs focused on the local impact of looming automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration and historically high levels of Pentagon spending. On March 1, unless Congress acts, billions of dollars will
Some lawmakers have an almost-mythical resistance to raising revenue at a moment when affluent individuals and big corporations have the lowest tax burden in more than half a century. — by Jo Comerford Sequestration is both ugly and hard to explain. As
If the Postal Service were run like Congress, postal workers would only show up on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays — except when they were on vacation, which would be a lot. — by Donald Kaul The Postal Service says it’s going to
Heinous schemes to limit the right to vote keep appearing in state legislatures. By Ron Carver Just before his death this past Thanksgiving, my friend Lawrence Guyot whispered one last assignment: We must “internationalize” the struggle over the right to vote. Decades
