Child poverty and exposure to socials ills are growing, and the people who currently control our national government seem little concerned, according to recent information provided by the non-partisan Children's Defense Fund.

I was thinking of our country’s long struggle for a democracy of substance – from workers’ rights to civil rights and equality – as I watched the sad and sinister debates concerning Terry Schiavo.

A bilateral meeting of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) took place in Johannesburg yesterday (22 March).

Can you fool all of the people all of the time? The politics of Social Security suggest not in 2005.

Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action and scholarly studies have shown the benefits of enrolling a diverse range of qualified students, opponents of the programs continue to make misleading arguments.

Singing “Ain’t going to let nobody turn me round,” 10,000 marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge here March 6 to protest Bush-Cheney voter suppression tactics and to demand renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act set to expire in 2007.

This month the global union movement is hosting a series of events to honor women’s struggle to attain justice and equality.

Forty years ago this coming Sunday, Americans were stunned by the spectacle of law enforcement officers brutally assaulting non-violent civil rights marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

At first glance, it doesn't seem like a fair fight.

In its darkest hours, America has always found illumination in the rhetoric of the Enlightenment and in the reasoned thinking of its Founding Fathers.

The military spent over $200 million to recruit and train personnel to replace service members discharged over the last decade for being openly gay.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody.

Academic freedom, which endows members of the university with the right to hold, express and teach any views they deem fit, and to research and publish their findings without restraint, is widely recognized as essential to the pursuit of knowledge.

Ward Connerly has tried to end affirmative action programs in California. On February 16, Connerly received a payback for that and his more recent work: $250,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews.

AIDS is a disease we can manage, control and prevent. But we have not mostly because of people who hate.

President Bush has re-nominated seven candidates for the federal appeals courts. Each was blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term.

Wide spread racial and gender discrimination at Cintas Corporation, the nation’s largest uniform provider, says union report. Also, oppose comp-time legislation.

We should never pass up the opportunity to point out that Rush Limbaugh is not only a racist pig but, unlike the swine, one of our stupider mammals as well

By a strange twist of fate, this year's calendar puts your inauguration on the same day as the most important religious day of the year for Muslims.