Labor unions and progressive groups are lining up behind the Democrats' 100-hour legislative agenda, but they have their eyes on a much broader economic populism message.
Labor unions and progressive groups are lining up behind the Democrats' 100-hour legislative agenda, but they have their eyes on a much broader economic populism message.
Dictators come and go, but good riddance to this thug. Though championed by some on the right for his free-market ways, Augusto Pinochet was no ally of democrac y. The Chilean general finally expired this week at age 91, never atoning for–and never having to answer for–his murderous 17-year rule.
AP - President Bush has decided the general direction he wants to take U.S. policy on Iraq and has asked his staff to work out the details as he wraps up a highly public review of the war and its aims.
AP - Saudi Arabia has warned it could decide to provide financial support to Iraqi Sunnis if the U.S. pulls its troops out of Iraq, where sectarian violence between the minority Sunnis and majority Iraqi Shiites has threatened to tear apart the country, The New York Times reported.
AP - The Bush administration on Tuesday asked an appeals court to overturn a ruling that could require a redesign of the nation's currency to help the blind.
Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll. But few Americans of either race -- just one out of eight -- consider themselves racist.