A detailed report by the American Civil Liberties Union only confirms what many have been saying for a year or more. The Obama administration's policies on national security, state secrets, and civil liberties threaten to ratify the Bush approach to these issues--an approach to which candidate Obama took great exception.
"Republican presidential nominee Sarah Palin" is not as crazy-sounding of a phrase as it might have been a year ago. But what would happen if the GOP actually nominates her?
As part of the sweeping financial reform bill signed into law this past week by President Barack Obama, a surprising legislative rider took effect seeking an end to the internal conflict plaguing Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The provision, which resulted largely from...
The committee that organized the March 4th protests against budget cuts and tuition hikes has put together a planning and strategy meeting on Sunday, August 1 to kick off the fall organizing against cuts and hikes. March 4th was a success in New York and nationally, but we are still far...
In discussions of CUNY, the school’s mission is often cited as being to serve “the children of the whole people.” These words were spoken by Horace Webster (1794-1871), the first director of the Free Academy, CUNY’s predecessor, at the academy’s opening...
