Thanks to last night's vote, that child of yours who has had asthma since birth will now be covered after suffering for her first nine years as an American child with a pre-existing condition.

Nearly every economist, including those from the Administration and the Fed, say that unemployment will not be much reduced before the November elections. In addition the double-dip recession chances have risen as a new wave of foreclosures, possible trade war with China, and other threats emerge.

After the terrible catastrophes in Haiti and Chile, the ongoing Philippine social “earthquakes” may seem trite, though they impact on close to a hundred million Filipinos. Its tremors are being registered by 3 million Filipino residents in the U.S. and a million in Canada. Apart from the paltry statistic that the majority in the U.S.’s longest neocolony, the Philippines, subsists on less than $2 a day.

If you look hard enough you might be able to recycle those old appliances, and they will likely be reconditioned and find a good home in a household less privileged than yours, or broken down into their reusable parts and used to help rejuvenate other salvageable units.

How do we go from where we are to socialism? Not an easy question and there is more than one contradictory approach on the left and even in and around our Party. There is much in Marxist theory and methodology to help give us a general approach, while the actual course of development and struggle will demand concrete answers.

It’s true that the advent of electric cars is not necessarily a boon for the environment if it means simply trading our reliance on one fossil fuel—oil, from which gasoline is distilled—for an even dirtier one: coal, which is burned to create electricity.

Unfortunately, Foer's argument is based on LOGICAL conclusions deduced from readily available empirical facts and , as Rowlands points out human beings in general "don't respond well to logical argument" – especially when they are engaged in politics.

We should also mount, where it makes sense, Communist candidacies to project the most advanced solutions.

Robert Borosage, in a recent article, joins the protectionist chorus targeting China as the source culprit in the Great Recession, adding some classic Reaganite/Bush dead-end embellishments like "Rogue Nation" and "communist dictatorship" to some familiar economic arguments.

Beloved food writer Michael Pollan recommends steering clear of foods that advertise their green attributes on their label. According to his line of reasoning, why give a child a fruit roll-up when you can give him or her a piece of fruit?

Few, if any, books published in the past 10 years or so which deal with the histories and lives of people of Arab descent actually deal with Arabic experiences in America. It is as if Arab people entered the American consciousness only after 2001.

From its very outset, the struggle for women’s liberation has had deep connections to the development of the socialist movement. The Utopian Socialist Charles Fourier said famously that a society was judged by its treatment of women.

Congressman Vito Marcantonio rose in the House of Representatives on January 11, 1940 and declared that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s practice of putting people’s names “on these index cards simply because of the views they may entertain, which may be contrary to the views entertained by Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover and other people in power…

In his book Anti-Dühring, Frederick Engels criticizes the social theories of the German philosopher and economist Eugen Dühring. In this article I discuss Engels' critique of Dühring's views on the origin of the concept of equality as well as his method of studying philosophical subjects.

Socialism has its material roots in the inability of capitalism to solve humanity’s problems. Working people gravitate toward a radical critique of society out of necessity, out of a sense that the existing arrangements of society (people don’t necessarily call it capitalism) fail to fulfill their material and spiritual needs.

On Wednesday, March 03, 2010, four students from Miami Dade University--Filipe Matos, 23; Gaby Pacheco, 25; Carlos Roa, 22; and Juan Rodriguez, 20--walked through Gwinnett County, Georgia, for a discussion with Sheriff Butch Conway who supports enforcement of the controversial law, 287(g).

On Thursday, I was proud to take part in a student walkout at the University of Maryland in defense of public education. It was just one link in a National Day of Action that saw protests in more than 32 states across the country.

As African American history closes, I am noticing more "good old days" stereotypical portrayals of African Americans. Some might disagree with this, but I consider the Nike Kobe-Lebron puppet commercials crudely stereotypical.

On February 28, 1970 in downpour rain some 5000 Chicanos marched through the heart of East Los Angeles to protest the U.S. unjust war in Vietnam and the disproportionately high death rate of Chicano soldiers in the Vietnam War.