The Church at the Crossroads

The Church at the Crossroads

In this print edition...

• The Church at the Crossroads

• From Outrage to Action: Defending Civil Rights Today

• War and Peace in the Middle East

• Medicaid on the Block

• Short Story: Unemployed

• June's Letters (updated frequently)

• June's Poetry

• Nobody Asked Me, But...

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Religion’s role in the political arena has sharpened because the ruling class has harnessed a sector of the Christian religious community to serve its interests.

The movement of African Americans for full social, economic and political equality has always been decisive to the struggle for democracy and the advance towards socialism.

Phyllis Bennis is an internationally recognized expert on the Middle East, a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a founder of United for Peace and Justice, and the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis.

Nationally and locally, right-wing Republicans are out to destroy Medicaid. They believe that the public health and medical service program is inefficient and unprofitable.

After a morning of pounding the pavements in search of a job, answering Want-Ads for any kind of dirty, ill-paid work, available, a guy feels that he’s just about done-up, and is entitled to a rest. There’s no point in plugging at it any longer: after eleven o’clock there’s nothing doing.