This Just In

Why did the New York Times believe it had to hire such a scoundrel? And why did we not get a full report on this relationship before?read more

The bill is still grossly inadequate, as Kucinich himself recognizes. And as Howard Zinn taught us, our job, as citizens, is not to compromise but to stand on principle.read more

Given the colossal damage the big banks have wreaked, and the systemic flaws this scandal has exposed, Congress is not responding with the requisite vigor.read more

Her shameless embrace of Honduran President Pepe Lobo puts the United States on the side of human rights abusers again.read more

On Wednesday, he exploited advocates of a single-payer health care system as a foil to say, in not so many words, “I’m not an extremist like they are.”read more

Today, there are 75% more vehicles on the road than there were in 1980, but the number of people doing enforcement at the highway traffic safety agency has gone down by 50%. The creed of anti-regulation has cost at least 56 lives in Toyota crashes.read more

The bill says it will eliminate discrimination against children with preexisting conditions within six months of enactment, but adults will have to wait for this ban to take effect until 2014.read more

Why can’t a news organization tell us if its own anchors have reason to fear for their lives?read more

As is his fashion, Obama justified his approval of the loan guarantees with his by-now hackneyed rhetoric about going beyond partisanship. Such rhetoric has not served him well politically so far. And now it’s fronting for a potential disaster environmentally.read more

She knew the Republicans wouldn’t let any Democratic President “turn the page” on partisanship, and she was prepared to slug it out. But not Obama.read more

The paper wrote about it like it was the biggest battle—and most dangerous one—since the landing at Normandy. The Pentagon’s own PR department couldn’t have done any better.read more

People are looking for answers. And Sarah Palin is providing them. They are simplistic answers. They are foolish answers. They are the wrong answers. But they have an appeal.read more

History will record that in February 2010, full equality for gays and lesbians came another step closer to reality.read more

People filled his empty but gift-wrapped box labeled “Hope” with huge dreams of a better America. We wanted him to be a mix of Martin Luther King and FDR, but the odds always were against that.read more

Thank you, Howard Zinn, for always being there, for teaching us about class conflict in America, for championing equality, for renouncing nationalism and denouncing war, and for exalting the activist, the poet, the singer, the actor, the artist.read more