Republican Senator Lindsey Graham—sometimes called the most immigration-friendly GOP member of Congress—has called for ending the practice of granting citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. Other Republicans have...
With one week left before New York’s primary elections, we look at the candidacy of Reshma Saujani, running for Congress to represent Manhattan’s East Side. She's young, a Harvard and Yale grad, the daughter of...
Over the past few months, a wave of high-profile wildcat strikes has been attracting attention in Chinese and Western media. Worker unrest at companies including Foxconn, which makes parts for Apple iPods, and the...
Last week an estimated 15,000 people convened in Detroit for the US Social Forum, only the second such gathering to take place in this country. With over 1,000 workshops, fifty People's Movement Assemblies and...
Plans to build mosques in downtown Manhattan near the World Trade Center site, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and in Midland Beach, trudge forward, meeting resistance at every step. This past Sunday, there was yet...
The singer-composer David Byrne’s unusual song cycle based on the life of the former first lady of the Philippines is now out as a two-CD set, with performances by vocalists like Cyndi Lauper, Natalie Merchant,...
Last week’s ambush of a paramilitary police force by Maoist rebels in India marked the latest and largest in a series of incidents which have been escalating over the past year. The Maoist movement has been growing for...
Obama has deployed almost 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban is again on the rise. Civilian and military deaths are doubling and tripling. So called Afghanistan “experts” are on the news 24/7. But do we know...
The new documentary Sun Behind the Clouds depicts the movement for an independent Tibet. So it's not surprising that China Film Group objected to its screening at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. But...
