Organizers, Not Occupiers: The Young People Working in the Shadows of a National Movement
May 2, 2012 By chance, the revelation of how Apple evades millions of dollars in taxes broke three days before May Day, when workers of the world traditionally protest such injustice.In Los Angeles, activists without the national reputation of Occupy struggle for change behind the scenes.
Where Liberals Go to Feel Good
Jan 24, 2011 The liberal class' solution to the bleak political landscape is the conference, where liberals go to feel good about themselves again Forget about reclaiming and re-electing President Obama -- worry about resisting him.
Clear and Pheasant Danger
Apr 14, 2010
Son of a Breach
Apr 14, 2010What Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Conference Missed
Apr 14, 2010 The specific inspiration for weapons proliferation among vulnerable Third World states is the desire to have a nuclear deterrent against invasion or attack by the United States (or in the Iran case, Israel), or by some other nation in the future.Obama and the House GOP: Full Q&A From Baltimore
Jan 30, 2010 Courtesy of C-SPAN, watch the whole (and at times, lively) exchange between President Barack Obama and Republican House members at a GOP retreat in Baltimore on Friday.Health Care Reform: Easier Than It Looks
Jan 11, 2010 There is broad agreement on the kinds of concessions the Senate can make to the House and still preserve the 60 votes needed for passage of a unified health care reform bill.
U.S. Ends AIDS Immigration Discrimination
Jan 4, 2010 For 22 years, people with HIV and AIDS have been banned from entering the U.S. It's pretty difficult to throw a global AIDS conference under such circumstances, which is why the policy is coming to an end.
Lowered Expectations
Sep 26, 2009 President Obama has lowered the bar for December's Copenhagen climate change conference by talking down the importance of arriving at an agreement on global warming by the end of the year. Obama's position contradicts the United Nations and others who see the conference in Denmark as a crucial moment for stemming climate change.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Incredible Shrinking Audience
Apr 21, 2009 Clearly, several dozen delegates at the United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva, Switzerland, disagreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assessment of Israel as a "racist government" on Monday.
