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  • Beyond Relief and Recovery
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philanthropy’s biggest challenge in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is to move past just doing the familiar.
    by Emmett D. Carson
    man handing over FEMA envelope. Every so often, an event occurs that changes how a society views itself. Ideas and beliefs that were universally accepted before the event are sharply questioned afterward. Hurricane Katrina is likely to be such an event. The hurricane affected a 90,000-square mile land mass (the size of England), taking the lives of more (…)

  • Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
    Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and (…)

  • Bookman: Gay marriage issue disappears until it’s time to head to the polls
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAY BOOKMAN
    ATLANTA - Think back a little more than a year ago, to the political campaigns of 2004. One of the hottest issues in presidential debates and congressional campaigns was the threat to traditional marriage posed by gay people seeking the right to wed.
    At the time, President Bush and others were warning that the threat could be averted only by the most serious step available under our political system, amending the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage outright.
    You may (…)

  • Bolivia’s charge to the left
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez
    NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON - With presidential elections in Bolivia on Sunday, Washington is buzzing with talk that another Latin American country may be "lost."
    Evo Morales, a former president of Bolivia’s coca-growers’ union and the leader of the Movement Toward Socialism party, is the current front-runner, according to the latest polls. If he wins the election, Mr. Morales will be the latest head of state to join the ranks of the region’s burgeoning New (…)

  • Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    Four years ago, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold distinguished himself as the Senate’s premier defender of the Constitution, when he cast the chamber’s sole vote against enactment of the Patriot Act. As a time when every other senator - even liberal Democrats with long records of championing the Bill of Rights — joined the post-September 11 rush to curtail basic liberties, Feingold stood alone in defense of the principle that it was possible to combat terrorism and protect the (…)

  • Star-Spangled Pandering
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Richard Cohen
    Last month Justice Antonin Scalia was politely quizzed by Norman Pearlstine, the outgoing Time Inc. editor in chief. The event, held in Time Warner’s New York headquarters, was supposedly off the record, but so much of it has already been reported that it will not hurt to add Scalia’s views on flag burning. He explained why it was constitutionally protected speech. It’s a pity Hillary Clinton was not there to hear him.
    The argument that this famously conservative member (…)

  • Coca-Cola Faces Mounting Pressure over Abusive Practices at Plants Worldwide
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, (OneWorld) - Coca-Cola, the multinational soft drink giant, is facing the wrath of rights advocacy groups here in the United States and abroad for refusing to take responsibility for abusive practices at its bottling plants.
    While a number of universities and colleges in the United States have already banned the sale of Coke products on their campuses, mounting pressure from student bodies throughout Europe is pushing hundreds of schools to terminate their (…)

  • American Girl Expects Strong Sales Despite Boycott
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Courtney E. Martin
    Anti-choice activists are boycotting the American Girl doll series this holiday season, but strong sales expectations suggest the girl-power message is prevailing with shoppers. The high price of the dolls, however, means they aren’t for everyone.
    American Girl dolls
    (WOMENSENEWS)—It’s that time of year again, when some shoppers are roaming the aisles of local toy stores in a somewhat desperate search for gifts that don’t send archaic gender messages to their (…)

  • A Religious Protest Largely From the Left
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Conservative Christians Say Fighting Cuts in Poverty Programs Is Not a Priority
    By Jonathan Weisman and Alan Cooperman
    When hundreds of religious activists try to get arrested today to protest cutting programs for the poor, prominent conservatives such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will not be among them.
    That is a great relief to Republican leaders, who have dismissed the burgeoning protests as the work of liberals. But it raises the question: Why in recent years (…)

  • The Limits of Power
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    Sometime in the mid-1990s, after it had become quite clear that Bill Clinton’s presidency would deliver rather less than had been hoped, and when it was becoming clear that Newt Gingrich’s control of the House would deliver rather more than had been feared, I penned a review of a then-recently published collection of former Sen, Eugene McCarthy’s poems. In it, I lamented the lack of poetry in the politics of the moment and suggested that America would be far better served (…)