Accurately sensing a growing anxiety among Americans that an economic turnaround hasn't been swift enough, the Obama administration last week made a strong push to announce the speed up of economic stimulus projects.

The idea that the US can't afford comprehensive health care reform during a recession, as pushed by some opponents of President Obama's call for reform this year, is flat out wrong, said a statement signed by more than 330 economists and released this week by the Institute for America's Future.

Community health centers should play a key role in ensuring affordable, universal access to quality care, especially for women, according to a new multimedia campaign launched by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America this week.

We, the undersigned economists, business leaders, and health care experts, urge the new President and Congress to reform America's health care system—to move boldly to cover all Americans with health insurance, to bring down health care costs and create improved quality and value within the health care system.

On this episode, we talk with Elena Mora and John Bachtell, both members of the National Board of the Communist Party and who traveled this month to Cuba for meetings with the Communist Party there and with leaders of various Cuban social and cultural institutions.

We are in a period defined by exponentially expanding technological development and the primacy of information. Email, the World Wide Web, digital cable, GPS, and satellites are all part of the global explosion in new information technology that is changing all of our lives forever.

Sixty-two percent of Americans support President Obama's plan for healthcare reform, according to a new ad from Americans United for Change.

Evidence mounts that while the Obama administration's economic stimulus package may have help to slow the pace of jobs loss, its goal of saving or creating three and a half million jobs is not in sight. The severity of the new jobless number was not lost on the White House.

Written on the threshold of the Cold War, as hostilities between the US and the USSR emerged, two countries who had once been strong allies in the war against fascism, the preceding section of this poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda spoke of the danger of a third World War and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Collective bargaining is a good strategy when looking to get the best price on a given product or service. Solar power is no exception, and dozens of neighborhood-wide installations in the U.S. and Canada have created a new model whereby going solar can actually start to pencil out for individual homeowners.

In June of 2000, Bill Clinton deemed the month of June “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” The month was chosen to remember the Stonewall riots in 1969 in Manhattan.

I've had a few of my progressive friends say to me, "You know Keith, I'm not that happy about the president not really going after those quirks in the Bush administration, I'm not that pleased that we haven't heard as much as we want to hear about a public option. What about 100 percent auction for cap and trade? What about these issues that we care about?"

Ever since President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the right wing has attacked her with racist and sexist remarks, part of a coordinated strategy to tarnish her credibility. And now they've continued their assault by publishing problematic and disrespectful images. Here is one response:

Taking aim at mountaintop removal mining, this week, the Obama administration announced a new interagency effort to strengthen federal oversight of the practice and to punish mining companies who fail to protect the environment.

Accurately sensing a growing anxiety among Americans that an economic turnaround hasn't been swift enough, the Obama administration this week made a strong push to announce the speed up of economic stimulus projects.

On this episode we play our recent interview with authors Clarence Lang and Robbie Lieberman, editors of a new book titled Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement.

Richard Wolff (Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) has released a DVD titled Capitalism Hits the Fan. It contains a lecture he gave November 19, 2008, along with some supporting graphics.

While Obama proclaims the 21st century, the government of Israel is returning to the 19th. One man spoke to the world, and the world listened. He walked onto the stage in Cairo alone, without hosts and without aides, and delivered a sermon to an audience of billions.

When President Obama stated that he didn't feel any pressure to choose either a minority or a woman in his choice to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter, I immediately twittered to the known universe that he was going to pick a white guy. By now the name Sotomayor is a household word. Shows you how much I know.

Today at noon (June 8) Mayor Carl Redus of Pine Bluff, Arkansas hosted a meeting for the AFL-CIO with the Arkansas Conference of Black Mayors. Twenty or so mayors were at the lunch meeting at the Pine Bluff Ramada Conference Center.