Recently added articles from In These Times:
The Audacity of Reform
Mar 01, 2009; ... For some pundits, President Barack Obama's spectacular fundraising success during the 2008 general election has removed campaign finance reform from the top of the reform agenda. Yet, as far as the influence of big money in politics goes, this past election was little different from ...
JUST THE FACTS
Mar 01, 2009; ... 59 Number of cents women made to each dollar men made in 1963, when President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act 78 Number of cents women made to each dollar men made in 2009 when President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay ...
QUID PRO QUO
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE QUID: Things weren't going so hot for the Colorado-based evangelical New Life Church in November 2006, what with all those media reports about their head pastor Ted Haggard's crystal meth-fueled dalliances with male prostitutes. So you can imagine their exasperation when Grant Haas, ...
letters
Mar 01, 2009; ... EDITOR'S NOTE The following exchange is an edited version of a lengthy discussion that has been taking place on our website. Please go to InTheseTimes.com to join in. Debating Hugo Chavez Steve Ellner's analysis ("Chavez Wins Again," January) of what is going on in ...
Note from Editor & Publisher
Mar 01, 2009; ... Dear Reader, I thought I'd share with you a passage from our late friend Stud Terkel's 2003 book, Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. In These Times excerpted the book on Jan. 19, 2004.) Studs wrote: "Activists have always battled the odds. But it's not a matter ...
Resource Wars in Ecuador
Mar 01, 2009; ... Indigenous people accuse President Rafael Correa of selling out to mining interests QUITO, ECUADOR- IN JANUARY, THIS country was shaken by mass protests against large-scale mining. Indigenous people and campesinos- or peasant farmers- in Ecuador have long called for ...
Roy Bourgeois Faces Excommunication
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is threatening to excommunicate Father Roy Bourgeois for publicly supporting the ordination of women to the priesthood. Bourgeois, who founded the group SOA Watch to dismantle the School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., participated in the Aug. 9, 2008, ...
AID FOR AIDS
Mar 01, 2009; ... An HIV/AIDS diagnosis used to be a death sentence. Now, antiretroviral medications allow hundreds of thousands of infected people to lead long, healthy lives. However, access to such treatment is rare, and a diagnosis remains a death sentence to all but the wealthiest patients. Every ...
El Salvador's Left Turn?
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE DAY AFTER the U.S. presidential election, Salvadoran presidential candidate Mauricio Funes congratulated President Obama. "These winds of change have begun to blow from the United States to refresh the global atmosphere, in need of more democracy and greater social justice," Funes ...
Blue People, Yellowcake
Mar 01, 2009; ... ON DEC. 19, Canadian U.N. diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay, and their driver, Soumana Mounkaila, were abducted in Niger. No information has emerged as to who is behind their disappearance. In mid-January, four European tourists were kidnapped on the Mali-Niger border. These ...
appall-o-meter
Mar 01, 2009; ... 2.9 For Love or Money Are you unhappily coupled with an aspiring Master of the Universe? Are the cratering markets making your big boy, ahem, sag down there? Do those dinners at Nobu taste like ashes in your mouth? Then Dating a Banker Anonymous is for you. The New York Times ...
SEIU Split Widens
Mar 01, 2009; ... On Jan. 27, after a long, fierce battle, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern took control of the dissident 150,000-member United Healthcare Workers West (UHW- West). But Stern's trusteeship of UHW seems unlikely to end the conflict. The next day, ousted UHW ...
snapshot
Mar 01, 2009; ... COLOMBO - Sri Lankan ethnic minority Tamil girls stand along a railway line in the seafront area of Wellawatte, in the capital Colombo on Feb. 2. Sri Lankan Tamils are feeling extremely vulnerable as the decades-long ethnic war ...
Death by Chutzpah
Mar 01, 2009; ... YOU KNOW WHAT I'm tired of? Chutzpah. Defined as "utter nerve; effrontery," chutzpah can be admirable, especially when people impolitely speak trutii to power. But what about when power thumbs its nose at die truth? Chutzpah remains one of die most significant legacies of the Bush ...
Will Holder Hold Cops Accountable?
Mar 01, 2009; ... ERIC HOLDER, the first African-American attorney general, takes over a Department of Justice (DOJ) that has been AWOL in the struggle for racial justice. "What the Bush administration did was to abandon civil rights enforcement on behalf of African Americans," said Ted Shaw, a Columbia ...
Closing America's Torture Chambers
Mar 01, 2009; ... PRESIDENT OBAMA was courageous to issue an executive order to close Guantánamo by next January. Having litigated on behalf of Guantánamo detainees for the last five years, I am delighted that this ugly symbol of the cruelty of the Bush years will be shut down. Its closing not only fulfills ...
THE FUTURE OF TRANSIT
Mar 01, 2009; ... Public transportation needs massive investment. Will the Obama administration step up? More than 2.5 million people live in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area and most never step foot on public transit. The city's bus system is slow and inefficient, and the region supports only two rail ...
Orange Fades to Black
Mar 01, 2009; ... Heralded for its Orange Revolution five years ago, Ukraine is coming apart at the seams KIEV, UKRAINE- AS THE GLOBAL financial crisis intensifies, some journalists have begun placing bets on which country is likely to crack first and dissolve into anarchy. If you're into that sort of ...
Ending the War on Drugs
Mar 01, 2009; ... Will the Obama administration put justice back in the criminal justice system? PRESIDENT OBAMA FACES A heap of crises: a major economic recession, crumbling national infrastructure, and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Buried in that heap is another war, one less present in ...
A Report From the Front Lines in the War on Drugs
Mar 01, 2009; ... The war on drugs is now in Its 25th year. Across the United States, U. S. Attorneys Offices are spending tremendous resources prosecuting "drug conspiracy" cases in which young black and Hispanic low-level, mostly nonviolent drug dealers are being sent away for decades. To give you an ...