A few weeks back, we received an e-mail alert from a friend to take action on behalf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) on standing up for California public workers in the face of steep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007, is not the exception in the European Union but the rule.

My feeling is exactly what I write in the article, which is to say, I am very hopeful, but I lack sufficient information to be more than hopeful. I wasn't saying that only others need more information, though many other people do, of course.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!,” Bob Dylan famously sang in 1965. And no one now debates that there is indeed an economic crisis upon us. Note that after at least 20 years of gridlock in Congress, an unprecedented “bipartisan consensus” has arisen to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a “blank check.”

Kishore Mahbubani’s new book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, is a sobering text that should be read with three points in mind.

Harper Barnes’ most recent book Never Been A Time tells the story of one of the most bloody race riots in US history – the 1917 East St. Louis race riot. Barnes, a longtime editor and cultural critic for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, outlines the underlying and unique factors that lead to the riot.

Hace pocas semanas recibí una alerta por correo electrónico de un amigo, a tomar acción a favor de la Federación Norteamericana de Empleados Estatales, de Condado y Municipales (AFSCME, por sus siglas en inglés) defendiéndoles a los trabajadores públicos de California frente a los graves recortes presupuestales propuestos por el gobernador Arnold Schwarzenegger.

There is an entire genre of theory explaining why the Western capitalist democracies did not undergo socialist revolution in the 20th Century, as Classical Marxism had predicted. Not surprisingly, most of this material comes from the Left itself.

Every child in the US is taught that a system of "checks and balances" between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, keeps the US from being a dictatorship.