"Shovel-ready." It’s the magic incantation to fix our economic woes. Many states and federal agencies have already gone from scouring their budgets…
Frida Berrigan
Even saddled with a two-front, budget-busting war and a collapsing economy, President Barack Obama may be able to accomplish a lot. With…
The CEO of a weapons manufacturer has plenty of chances to rub elbows with deputy secretaries of defense, officials from Homeland Security,…
Seven years into George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror, the Pentagon is embroiled in two big wars, a potentially explosive war…
Sixty-three years ago this week, the United States was the first (and last, so far) nation to use nuclear weapons in war,…
A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets, and…
March 19 — Thirty-one people were arrested this morning as they staged a nonviolent blockade at the national headquarters of the Internal…
A Marine squad was on a dusty road in Iraq, far from home. Suddenly, a deadly roadside bomb explodes the early morning…
A U.S. Army captain in Africa waxes philosophical. It’s like the old saying, he opines; “give a man a fish, he’ll eat…
The war in Iraq is a failure. The “Global War on Terror” cannot be won by military might alone. Access to health…