by Susan J. Douglas | Aug 30, 2007 | News
With the passing of Lady Bird Johnson, we are reminded that First Ladies used to stand for something. In the mid-1960s with the war in Vietnam escalating, beautifying America's highways may have seemed a trivial goal. It wasn't. Lady Bird Johnson—a...
by Robert B. Reich | Aug 30, 2007 | News
The Federal Reserve Board, acting as America's central bank, recently sliced half a percentage point off the discount rate it charges banks for loans. Its primary purpose was to lift the confidence of investors and consumers in the United States and around the...
by Alan Bisbort | Aug 30, 2007 | News
George W. Bush is afraid of his own shadow. No president, it seems, has ever been this terrified of the American people, this hidden away or secretive, this evasive in speech and behavior. Not even Nixon, who at least faced the cameras, the reporters and the people...
by Lewis M. Steel | Sep 5, 2007 | News
On June 28, three years after the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court subverted Brown's meaning to block public school integration plans. As a result, boards of education across the country, which have used racial criteria to...
by our readers | Sep 5, 2007 | News
Whiplash for BushPresident Bush has got to be suffering from whiplash. First he gave Iraqi’s leader Nouri al-Maliki “lukewarm” support, then, the next day, he strongly supported him as a “good guy, man.” But the strongest U-turn has to be...
