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01 August 2013
Reverence for Garbage
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Robert Koehler
“My life would be worthless without music,” the girl said.

And the music came, up from the garbage, through her hands and heart and out to the world. My god, she was playing a violin made out of an old can. A boy was playing...
31 July 2013
What killed Detroit
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Bob Fitrakis
Detroit was bankrupted by that bizarre phenomenon known as “American exceptionalism.” The lack of a socialist or labor party arguing on behalf of factory workers and establishing an industrial policy led to the death of the world’s most...
29 July 2013
North Carolina’s Tea Party nightmares
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Jesse Jackson
North Carolina — once poster child for the New South — now displays the nightmares spawned by the Tea Party right no longer restrained by the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court’s conservative gang of five disemboweled it in the...
27 July 2013
My opinion on the whole Trayvon Martin situation
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Bresharius Agnew
Well, I am very disappointed at the fact that Zimmerman was found not guilty because I know, as well as everyone else, that George Zimmerman committed homicide, on the day of April 11, 2012. The fact that his father was a retired judge and...
27 July 2013
The Founding Contradiction
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Robert Koehler
How many years are we away from a national apology over slavery?

Wait, scratch that word, “apology.” Too late, not possible. The scope of the wrong was too great. Make that a national atonement — an owning up to the crime, a...
23 July 2013
American policy in Afghanistan: A crisis of imagination
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Nicholas Hills
After a long, enduring struggle in Afghanistan, President Obama is considering an accelerated troop withdraw from the tempestuous state. Whereas the current exit strategy includes the steady removal of troops before January 2015, recent...

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